[darcs-users] darcs patch: More online help for --sendmail-command and SENDMAIL

Petr Rockai me at mornfall.net
Wed Oct 7 19:59:41 UTC 2009


Hi,

> + "provide an explicit path to this program.  If `--sendmail-command' is",
> + "not present, $SENDMAIL is used; if both are not present, the standard",
> + "locations /usr/sbin/sendmail and /usr/lib/sendmail are used.  (Other",
> + "MTAs, e.g. postfix, sometimes provide aliases to work with software",
> + "that expects sendmail; if in doubt whether your setup works, just send",
> + "yourself a patch and see what happens.)",
> + "If your machine has no working MTA (mail server), it may loose your",
It's lose, not loose.
> + "e-mails without telling you.  In that case, take a look at msmtp and",
> + "the offline wrapper msmtp-runqueue.sh.",
> + "Example: `--sendmail-command=\"/usr/local/bin/msmtp-enqueue.sh -a me %<\"'",
> + "(Without %<, the e-mail is not piped into your MTA's stdin.)"])

Other than that, I think this is something for Trent to review and push. I
agree with the spirit of the change. :)

Yours,
   Petr.


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