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On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:17:29 +0100 |
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Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 16 November 2004 23:37, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > Not all users have an mta installed. Any solution along these lines |
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> > would need to support at a minimum these options: |
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> > * sending via an mta |
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> > * writing to the system log |
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> > * writing to a particular file |
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> > * displaying all messages post merge |
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> > * discarding messages |
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> If setting the email address is a prerequisite I don't think this is |
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> an issue. Of course alternative courses of action are nice. In any |
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> case a mta is pretty standard (even if it is ssmtp) as cron needs it |
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> and cron is really really handy for any unix system (For example for |
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> log rotating). |
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Ciaranm is right here for once. Please remember that portage is also |
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used during bootstrap, also several people (including myself) don't want |
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emails from portage. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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