Re: how to make desktop app send email?

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 15:14, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 07:26 -0400, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> 
> > discussing sendmail misses the point.  The goal is generally not to
> > send the content immediately.  An application merely wants to supply
> > some of the information, and let the user fill in the rest using
> > their chosen front mailer interface.
> 
> *some* applications want to do that.  Apps like, say, Bug-Buddy don't.
> That only really works with sendmail, iirc.  I can use it from my
> desktop at home, or my workstation at work, but not my laptop, because
> it roams and has no permanently accessible SMTP server and I'm not going
> to sit around swapping MTA configurations depending on where I am.

This is why bug-buddy doesn't work on my machine too - it's the only
program that uses sendmail, and I don't have a working sendmail (exim)
configuration.

For the record, there are plans to make bug-buddy submit via XML-RPC
over HTTP; one of the advantages you pick up by doing this is removing
the dependency on sendmail. Others include much nicer server-side
parsing, although the legacy interface will continue to exist for old
bug-buddys. But that hasn't quite happened yet.

--
Andrew