[PATCH] localhost as the default smtp server

[Aurelien Jacobs]

On Sun, 14 May 2006 17:53:31 -0700
"Vadim Gelfer" <vadim.gelfer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/14/06, Aurelien Jacobs <aurel at gnuage.org> wrote:
> 
> > I've just spent some time trying to configure the mail notify extension.
> > It's now working, but it took me some time to discover that the default
> > smtp server is _not_ localhost, and how to configure the smtp server.
> 
> i will make notify more verbose, so it says what server it talks to.

That would indeed be helpfull.

> i do not think your patch will help, so i will not apply. none of my
> dev machines have a server on port 25.

Well, none of my networks have a machine called "mail". IMHO, localhost
is the only sane host name that you can expect to be available everywhere.
Moreover, it is quite common in the UNIX world to have a local smtp
server on every computers, that acts as a simple relay to the real
smtp server.
Anyway, that's not very important as long as notify is verbose enough.

Thanks,
Aurel