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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