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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] send-email: allow sendmail binary to be used instead of SMTP
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:13:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vhd3rgfey.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060515210110.GR32076@h4x0r5.com> (Ryan Anderson's message of "Mon, 15 May 2006 17:01:21 -0400")

Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes:

> I think, in practice, that /usr/lib/sendmail will exist anywhere you hve
> something running on port 25, at least on unixy machines.  In my
> searches at an old job, that appeared to be the canonical place to call
> sendmail from, and every MTA appears to provide an appropriate binary
> there.
>
> So, I'm not overly worried about it.

exim, postfix and friends?

I used to know somebody who port-forwarded 25/tcp to central
smtp server from smaller machines in her intranet installation,
but I would say that is rare.  I am not worried about it either;
I just wanted to make sure _somebody_ thought the potential
issues through and agreed with the change the patch makes.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-15 21:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-15  2:32 [PATCH] send-email: allow sendmail binary to be used instead of SMTP Eric Wong
2006-05-15  2:34 ` Eric Wong
2006-05-15  2:38 ` [PATCH] send-email: quiet some warnings Eric Wong
2006-05-15  6:04   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-15  9:41     ` [PATCH] send-email: quiet some warnings, reject invalid addresses Eric Wong
2006-05-15  5:52 ` [PATCH] send-email: allow sendmail binary to be used instead of SMTP Junio C Hamano
2006-05-15  9:27   ` Eric Wong
2006-05-15  9:34     ` Eric Wong
2006-05-15  9:47     ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-15 10:11       ` Eric Wong
2006-05-15 10:37         ` Martin Langhoff
2006-05-15 16:25           ` Junio C Hamano
2006-05-15 19:10           ` Eric Wong
2006-05-15 21:01       ` Ryan Anderson
2006-05-15 21:13         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-05-15 21:52           ` Ryan Anderson
2006-05-15 22:07           ` Martin Langhoff

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