From: Martin Langhoff Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 20:24:06 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: Change from Mail::Sendmail to Net::SMTP Message-ID: <46a038f90604261324w76f272edp93941d7e8645be8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7vy7xsm6qa.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On 4/27/06, Junio C Hamano 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. martin