Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Donny Davies <woodchip@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] mailwrapper
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2004 20:27:49
Message-Id: 20040308202745.GA16830@breccia.escarpment
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] mailwrapper by Grant Goodyear
1 Hi Grant
2
3 On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 03:20:10PM -0500, Grant Goodyear wrote:
4 [...]
5 > Today I added *BSD's mailwrapper program to Portage (after doing a bit
6 >of porting so that it works on linux). You can find a readable
7 >description of this program at
8 >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mail-changingmta.html#AEN30548
9 >(although I've changed the defaults to be more Gentoo-friendly).
10 >Ideally, I would like to have mailwrapper installed by default, with
11 >each MTA installing a mailer.conf.MTA file. If the system did not
12 >already have a mailer.conf file, then the first MTA to be installed
13 >would also create an /etc/mailer.conf symlink that pointed to its
14 >mailer.conf.MTA file. Comments/complaints?
15
16 Sounds like a step in the right direction!
17
18 Regards.