From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 21:58:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 09/10] send-email: Minor cleanup of $smtp_server usage and send_message()
Message-ID: <loom.20090411T215335-597@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <1239476908-25944-9-git-send-email-mfwitten@gmail.com>

Michael Witten <mfwitten <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
>  	be specified by the 'sendemail.smtpserver' configuration
>  	option; the built-in default is `/usr/sbin/sendmail` or
>  	`/usr/lib/sendmail` if such program is available, or
> -	`localhost` otherwise.
> +	`127.0.0.1` otherwise. Also, if <host> is the empty string,
> +	then a built-in default is used.

Does this help anyone? localhost at least doesn't change when/if ipv6 is used,
whereas '127.0.0.1' is only for ipv4.