Mail configuration

[Carlos Perelló Marín]

On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 16:26 -0400, Dave Miller wrote:

[...]

> I always have to do 2 things to the postfix config before I can send 
> mail from a warty box:  1) edit /etc/mailname to contain a domain name 
> that exists outside of my LAN, and 2) edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and 
> change relayhost to point at my ISP's SMTP server.
> 
> Both reportbug and bug-buddy offer the user the opportunity to set the 
> From: address for the email to be sent.  However, when the email gets 
> submitted to /usr/sbin/sendmail, postfix (and sendmail for that matter) 
> will happily use <accountname@(contents of /etc/mailname)> as the MAIL 
> FROM when submitting it to the next hop SMTP server.
> 
> I hate to suggest adding yet another question to the base installation, 
> but I'm thinking if we want bug reports to "just work" that we should 
> probably assume everyone is going to need to pick an SMTP server to use 
> for relayhost.  And of course, setting an /etc/mailname that actually 
> exists on the Internet...

In Spain we don't have it blocked by the ISP but for the spam black list
servers because some reasons offtopic for this mailing list.

The general rule to use our ISP SMTP is using authentication, is not
usual to relay on IP because we have a big ISP that owns the IP and
resells them to other ISP and thus you need user + password to use the
relay server.

> 
> Long term we probably need to make it use HTTP instead of sending a 
> mail, but I don't think that can be accomplished between now and release 
> time.

Yes, the HTTP submit seems more easy to do under my point of view.

> 
> Anyone have any bright ideas?
> 

Perhaps we could give to the user a UI to configure those settings from
the system admin tools instead of doing it at installation time...

Cheers.

> -- 
>   - justdave