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On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>wrote: |
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> No... |
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> I know all about running a local MTA. |
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> My real question is, why can portage do this (send emails without a local |
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> MTA installed)? |
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> Why did the gentoo devs decide to build an smtp client into it capable of |
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> doing TLS, instead of simply requiring an MTA to be able to email emerge |
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> logs? |
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They didn't. The smtp client is part of Python, not part of portage. If |
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you're developing in Python, you just call Python's mail API and let Python |
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take care of the mail, instead of calling the local MTA. Easier and faster |
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development. |
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Cron is written in C where you don't get mail functionality for free so |
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it's easier to use the local MTA. |
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Manuel A. McLure WW1FA <manuel@××××××.org> <http://www.mclure.org> |
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...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, |
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no man may kill a cat. -- H.P. Lovecraft |
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