* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060516 15:14]: > > 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. I'd venture > to say that most "home desktops" that POP email from their ISP > don't have their MTA set up to relay mail.
There a trend currently that more and more companies and universities (perhaps also more ISPs in the near future), are blocking outgoing SMTP trafic for everything but their mail server. > On the "home desktop" reportbug uses Python's smtp library to send > email directly to the ISP's smtp server. And that's a good thing, > because, for a long time, reportbug did not have that feature, and > people who don't know how to configure MTAs were not able to send > bug reports. Yeah. Its a workaround to a common problem (that the local mta is not that easily configurable). That does not mean that it is better to extend the workaround than to solve the problem. > > There is a reason for having standardised interfaces. It is that they > > can be implemented in different ways. > > Yes. The standardized interface is smtp. The standard *NIX way to send mail is the sendmail symlink, the standard for computers to exchange their mails is SMTP. Thats a difference. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
