Guy Hulbert skribis 2007-01-05 4:45 (-0500): > Ok. I wasn't sure. However, my question was not very clear. From > memory, I believe that Debian documents a "sendmail interface" but the > reason is that this is not documented elsewhere. It's not in the SMTP > RFCs as far as I know.
It's not SMTP, so it shouldn't be in the SMTP RFC :) One of the reasons to use /usr/sbin/sendmail is *avoiding* SMTP. > In my experience, every beginning perl web programmer writes software > which directly talks SMTP. I have seen people opening pipes to /usr/bin/sendmail MUCH more often, especially from beginning Perl programmers. There are many books that teach them this. (Many even include the mail address in the command line and have an injection security hole there.) > The problem is that this is not any "standard way". Even if a standard is de facto instead of official, it's still a standard. /usr/sbin/sendmail certainly is the de facto standard, even on much more than just Linux. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://juerd.nl/sig> convolution: ict solutions and consultancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ik vertrouw stemcomputers niet. Zie <http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/>.
