Mail configuration
Dave Miller
justdave at canonical.com
Mon Sep 13 00:48:38 CDT 2004
John wrote:
> Dave Miller wrote:
>
>> We could make a small script which behaves like /usr/sbin/sendmail but
>> instead of mailing the submitted mail, posts it via HTTP to us. We
>> could then just change the path in bug-buddy to use that instead of
>> /usr/sbin/sendmail.
>>
>> Kind of a hack, but that would be doable in the short-term without
>> adding questions at install time.
>
> I was asleep at the kbd when I read that:-((
And you're still asleep ;)
> Teaching the script to speak smtp shouldn't be too hard, though it
> _does_ require working mail.
The script uses mail now, and that's the problem. :) We can't expect to
know who their mail server is, and we can't depend on being able to
reach our mail server from their machine.
--
- justdave
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