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From: | graydon hoare |
Subject: | [Monotone-devel] Re: smtp vs. calling sendmail (Re: static stuff) |
Date: | Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:24:30 -0500 |
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Peter Simons wrote:
> I understand this. I am of the opinion that it's a > mistake for email, but reasonable people may > disagree. Same here. I can see the benefits of not depending on another external tool, but in the case of e-mail, it feels a bit extreme.
it was not extreme-ness which moved me to include SMTP: it was ease. I already had most of the machinery in the NNTP code (the protocols are very similar) so I just tacked SMTP on as a near-free bonus.
and -- digressing -- my personal experience is that most mail systems are semi-centralized around smarthosts these days anyways, and most client sendmail configs are forward-only, so I didn't see it as that big a deal. several MUAs include SMTP now, to cut down on "how do I configure sendmail?" support bugs, and it seems to work from a policy angle. mail still flows.
in any case, it would not be difficult to provide a hook to let a user call the MTA of their choice for posting. it's actually easiest for SMTP; the other protocols do a somewhat specialized fetching routine as well, which will be more difficult to describe to a hook. SMTP is post-only.
-graydon
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