[Bug 243631] Review Request: msmtp - an SMTP client

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Summary: Review Request: msmtp - an SMTP client


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243631





------- Additional Comments From nikolay at vladimiroff.com  2007-06-22 19:30 EST -------
* Fri Jun 22 2007 Nikolay Vladimirov <nikolay at vladimiroff.com> - 1.4.12-4
- not using alternatives

Spec URL: http://ns.bgtld.net/build/msmtp.spec
SRPM URL: http://ns.bgtld.net/build/msmtp-1.4.12-4.fc7.src.rpm

also source file in the srpm is with the correct timestamp.


The main problem with msmtp is that if it replaces sendmail it brakes all local
mail deliveries(that's not good). That includes syslog. Msmtp just takes the
mail from a MUA and relays it to a smtp server it doesn't really transports it;
the only destination is an smtp server. So there must be a configuration file
with account for every user(that uses mail) and an smtp server to send mail to.
Else sending mail just doesn't work. So if there is entry for msmtp in
alternatives and it's selected as system mta. All mail delivery will be broken
unless there is a valid configuration file(must be written by the sys admin).  
So as I said before the risk of breaking things if msmtp is system mta is big. 
I'll leave the provides for sendmail because of mutt and remove the use of
alternatives it's just not useful. 



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