Re: [Cvs-syncmail] Please enable the /usr/sbin/sendmail interface for sending out mail

[Klaus J. R. <Kla...@at...>]

In <200...@ba...>, Joost van Baal <j.e...@uv...> writes:
> Yes, the reason to move from an /usr/sbin/sendmail interface to talking
> SMTP quite often is portability: Microsoft Windows lacks a ``standard''
> interface to send out mail.  However, using /usr/sbin/sendmail (if it's
> available) has benefits: you can rely on the local mail queueing, to
> deal with stuff like network outages.  Therefore, I feel it's a wise
> thing to use this interface where available.  (Unix MUA's generally do
> this, too.)

Agreed.

Would you expect the MUA to handle a message in SMTP format, or would you want 
the ability to specify recipients, subject etc. when calling the MUA.  The 
former approach obviously is a lot easier to implement and would be my 
preferred option, something like

        --mua="/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"

> Hm, what was the reason to start reimplementing the same script in Perl?
> (I couldn't find any rationale.) Would it be useful if I'd write a patch
> for the Perl script?

Mainly the need to run cvs-syncmail on a system that did not have Python 
installed, and once I had ported the code to Perl I thought others might 
possibly have an interest, too :-)

A patch would certainly be appreciated, or at least a clarification of the 
requirement.

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