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On 2013-11-16 3:25 PM, Manuel McLure <manuel@mclure.org> wrote:
>> Why did the gentoo devs decide to build an smtp client into it
>> capable of doing TLS, instead of simply requiring an MTA to be able
>> to email emerge logs?

> They didn't. The smtp client is part of Python, not part of portage. If
> you're developing in Python, you just call Python's mail API and let
> Python take care of the mail, instead of calling the local MTA. Easier
> and faster development.
>
> Cron is written in C where you don't get mail functionality for free so
> it's easier to use the local MTA.

Ah, ok, thanks... I missed the significance of Alans reference to python 
earlier...