Peter Anvin Reporter
	Description • 23 years ago

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.

	Tuukka Tolvanen (sp3000)
	Comment 1 • 23 years ago

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

	Gregg Meehan
	Comment 2 • 22 years ago

changing QA contact from Sheela to Gregg

	R.K.Aa.
	Comment 3 • 22 years ago

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

	Brian 'netdragon' Bober
	Comment 4 • 21 years ago

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

	Brian 'netdragon' Bober
	Comment 5 • 21 years ago

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

	Dave Miller [:justdave]
	Comment 6 • 21 years ago

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.

	Petri T. Koistinen
	Comment 7 • 21 years ago

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. =)

	Matt H
	Comment 8 • 17 years ago

Isn't this fixed in thunderbird?

	Matěj Cepl
	Comment 9 • 16 years ago

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

No, it isn't.

	Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]
	Comment 10 • 16 years ago

wanted‑thunderbird3-