The standard method of submitting mail on a Linux system is spawning /usr/sbin/sendmail (which may or may not actually be Sendmail, but can be any MTA.) The Linux Standards Base specification (http://www.linuxbase.org/) contains a detailed description of the set of arguments any MTA should be able to handle (which includes the -bs option for speaking SMTP protocol.) It would be highly desirable to support the standard API for submitting outgoing mail, especially in this day and age when outgoing mail servers tend to be highly restricted for antispam security reasons. The system MTA can obtain its configuration from DHCP or IPCP or otherwise have information that an MUA like Mozilla would not have. Although being able to override this and use a different mechanism is useful, not being able to use the standard system-provided mechanism at all is a serious problem.

*** Bug 132275 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

changing QA contact from Sheela to Gregg

*** Bug 158609 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

IMHO, we need to again concentrate all access to sendmail, and allow people to modify the path for sendmail in localconfig.

This will hopefully be fixed in bug 84876, using for sendmail (from attachment 130959 [details] [diff] [review]) +sub DoSendmailMailing { + my ($envFrom, $envTo, $msgHeaders, $msgBody) = @_; + my $sendmailExecutable = Bugzilla::Config::Param('mailmodargs'); + + open(SENDMAIL, "|$sendmailExecutable") or + ::ThrowCodeError('sendmail_mailing_failed', { openrv => $! } ); + print SENDMAIL "$msgHeaders\n\n"; + print SENDMAIL "$msgBody\n"; + close(SENDMAIL); + + return 1; +} with Bugzilla::Config::Param('mailmodargs'); being the name of the executable centralized but sendmail is going to be deprecated for Bugzilla installations in favor of Net::SMTP

Breaking dependency. This has absolutely nothing to do with Bugzilla, Brian is confused. The reporter is requesting that on unix/linux systems Mozilla MailNews be able to send mail via sendmail.

Use of /usr/sbin/sendmail would be nice as Mozilla Mail seem to add imaginary hostname after HELO/EHLO command: Received: from iki.fi (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dsl-hkigw4q31.dial.inet.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74A8240C1C9; Sat, 6 Mar 2004 16:19:47 +0200 (EET) This will confuse some servers that will check received headers for validity in effort to reduce spam. I don't get into merits or validity of such checks, I am just stating facts. I think in "Mail & Newsgroups Account Settings" the topic "Outgoing Server (SMTP) Settings" should be renamed to "Outgoing Mail Settings", where you could select use of sendmail (on the platforms that support it) or SMTP relay server to be used. Aside note: I am happy that there is already TLS available. =)

Isn't this fixed in thunderbird?

No, (In reply to comment #8) > Isn't this fixed in thunderbird? No, it isn't.

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