Neil Bothwick schrieb:
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:17:46 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
I don't know, but it would be a very useful addition - and IMO,
they could dump that useless feature, that portage can do SMTP
by itself. That's so un-Unix, so Windows-like :(
Portage doesn't do SMTP by itself, it uses the Python smtplib module.
True.
Re-using existing software is very unix like
Sending mail with directly speaking SMTP isn't. That's the job
of a MTA.
Yes, it would, but I'd actually not suggest to do so. Installing
postfix (or any SMTP server, for that matter) just for Portage
isn't the right way to go. It's too much code, opening too many
potential problems, which can be sidestepped by making
portage use /usr/sbin/sendmail instead.
Why not let portage work with the same SMTP server you use for all other
mail?
Why make me configure SMTP in two places (MTA and Portage)?
If your mail client can send mail, why not tell portage to use the
same route.
Why not make Portage send mail the same way, the MUA
does it - with /usr/sbin/sendmail? That's a standard way
of getting mail off a host.
There's absolutely no need to use a local MTA if you don't
already have one.
There's no need to configure the same thing in multiple places.
It's really bad style to make users keep the same configuration
in multiple places.
Alexander Skwar
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This isn't true in practice -- what we've missed out is Stradivarius's
constant. And then the aside: "For those of you who don't know, that's
been called by others the fiddle factor..."
-- From a 1B Electrical Engineering lecture.
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