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On 2013-11-16 3:25 PM, Manuel McLure <manuel@××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> Why did the gentoo devs decide to build an smtp client into it |
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>> capable of doing TLS, instead of simply requiring an MTA to be able |
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>> to email emerge 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 |
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> Python take care of the mail, instead of calling the local MTA. Easier |
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> and faster 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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Ah, ok, thanks... I missed the significance of Alans reference to python |
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earlier... |
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