Re: Gnome-Bugs and SMTP

["Sarel J. Botha" <sjb dundee lia net>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 1999 at 08:46:00AM -0600, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> There are many reasons: but I think the most important is that if you
> use sendmail, and you are disconnected from the network, the message
> will still be queued for delivery when the machine connecst to the
> network.
> 
> Also, various sites might have special firewalls and mail hubs for
> mail delivery, so it is better to go that way.

I think it should try open a socket directly to mail.gnome.org and if that
doesn't work, provide the option to use another SMTP server or local
sendmail.


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