[86] in athena10
Re: Sending mail from emacs (was Re: /svn/athena r22750 -
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Sat Feb 16 02:25:20 2008
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:24:35 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@mit.edu>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Anders Kaseorg wrote:
> I think that we should instead get debathena-msmtp working sufficiently
> well that we can install it as the default /usr/sbin/sendmail from a
> package providing mail-transport-agent, so that all applications can
> benefit from it with no extra configuration.
Seems reasonable.
> It is not quite there yet. One issue is trivial: sendmail doesn't have
> -t by default, so that should be factored out. This may solve the
> problem geofft reported about bouncing messages, though the comments in
> pine's (and alpine's) default configuration still say that the
> sendmail-path must "operate in the style of sendmail's '-t' option"--so
> maybe there's an incompatibility between msmtp -t and sendmail -t that
> we need to figure out.
The bouncing messages problem is just a msmtp bug. See Debian Bug
#464474.
-Tim Abbott
