Re: [PATCH] send-email: Change from Mail::Sendmail to Net::SMTP
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 4/27/06, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > > system that we don't need an smtp daemon. Net::SMTP doesn't know how
> > > to use /usr/bin/sendmail
>
>
> > Wouldn't --smtp-server=that.smtp.server work for you? Ah, that
> > would not work if your use is to send a local mail. Hmph...
>
> Well, the machine knows that the smtp server is (I mean, files in /etc
> have the right values in them), but I don't think often about it. Only
> when I am installing OSs or MTAs...
>
> I know... I'm a whiner! ;-) I'll probably do something that does an
> eval and tries Mail::Sendmail and post it.
You should be able to just open a pipe to:
/usr/sbin/sendmail @recipients
and just write headers\nbody to that pipe.
Perhaps allow and detect --smtp-server=/path/to/sendmail ?
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Eric Wong