From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax?
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 09:00:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1697298.5GxeYA1dCr@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5287CFAD.7030002@libertytrek.org>
On Saturday 16 Nov 2013 15:03:57 Tanstaafl wrote:
> My real question is, why can portage do this (send emails without a
> local MTA installed)?
Portage needs to depend on as few other packages as possible. If it required
an MTA on a new system, all sorts of dependency loops and other problems would
ensue in some cases.
--
Regards,
Peter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-17 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-16 14:05 [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax? Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 14:13 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 14:56 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-16 14:59 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 15:04 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-16 15:17 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 17:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-16 17:42 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 21:24 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-11-18 13:45 ` [gentoo-user] Re: Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd <at> host:587 syntax? James
2013-11-16 19:29 ` [gentoo-user] Tell cron to send email using sender:passwd@host:587 syntax? Benjamin Lee
2013-11-16 20:03 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 20:25 ` Manuel McLure
2013-11-17 11:42 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-17 11:45 ` Tanstaafl
2013-11-16 23:14 ` Neil Bothwick
2013-11-17 9:00 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
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