Mail configuration

[John]

Dave Miller wrote:

> Dave Miller wrote:
>
>> 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...
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Anyone have any bright ideas?
>
>
> Hmm, here's a thought:
>
> We could make a small script which behaves like /usr/sbin/sendmail but 
> instead of mailing the submitted mail, posts it via HTTP to us.  We 
> could then just change the path in bug-buddy to use that instead of 
> /usr/sbin/sendmail.
>
> Kind of a hack, but that would be doable in the short-term without 
> adding questions at install time.
>

I was asleep at the kbd when I read that:-((

One of the things I don't like about bugzilla is the fact it uses http. 
I can't report bugs unless I'm online.

Teaching the script to speak smtp shouldn't be too hard, though it 
_does_ require working mail.

Which reminds me. What's this deadletter sitting in / after a U install?