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| From: | Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax? | ||
| Date: | Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:14:12 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20131116231400.494a04fd@digimed.co.uk | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax? by Tanstaafl |
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| 1 | On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:03:57 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | > My real question is, why can portage do this (send emails without a |
| 4 | > local MTA installed)? |
| 5 | |
| 6 | I already answered that, it uses Python's smtlib (or something equivalent, |
| 7 | I haven't checked). That's a core Python library and since portage |
| 8 | depends on Python it can be sure the library is available, which isn't |
| 9 | necessarily true of an MTA. |
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| 11 | |
| 12 | -- |
| 13 | Neil Bothwick |
| 14 | |
| 15 | 3 things happen as you age: 1) Your memory goes; 2) uh..um |
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