On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 19:21 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 11:04 +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > >> Scripsit "Steinar H. Gunderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 02:13:46PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: [snip] > >> Then something else. One can easily envisage installing as > >> /usr/bin/sendmail something that reads an email, immediately > >> sends it to a smarthost via SMTP and exits with an error if a problem > >> happened. No daemon, no local spool. > > > Not all people have their systems configured that way. > > The point is that they could if the wanted to. And if they did, it > would work for _all_ programs, not just particular perl scripts that > happen to use some obscure perl module to send mails.
mail-transport-agent postinst config scripts will have to be a lot more clever, then, and explain things like relayhosts to non- sysadmins. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "A woman should dress to attract attention. To attract the most attention, a woman should be either nude or wearing something as expensive as getting her nude is going to be." P.J. O'Rourke, satirist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]