[darcs-devel] [issue596] darcs shouldn't need an MTA just to send mail

[Yuval Kogman]

On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 19:20:56 -0000, Peter Berry wrote:
> 
> New submission from Peter Berry <pwberry at gmail.com>:
> 
> Currently 'darcs send' on Linux needs an MTA to send mail. But installing a full
> blown MTA just for one command seems like overkill. Probably it should be able
> to use the user's email client to do this instead, or alternatively talk SMTP
> directly.

SSMTP was designed for exactly this niche - it provides a sendmail
compatible interface and delegates to an SMTP server.

-- 
  Yuval Kogman <nothingmuch at woobling.org>
http://nothingmuch.woobling.org  0xEBD27418

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