292735 - Patch to replace /usr/bin/sendmail for win32

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 84876

(Bugzilla :: Email Notifications, defect)

Description

[Clay Dowling]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: 2.18

Piping to /usr/bin/sendmail for mail notifications is a non-starter on win32
platforms, which generally don't have sendmail and even less frequently have a
/usr/bin folder.  The attached patch uses Net::SMTP to send mail to the victims.
 It could probably do with a little patching to pick up the mail server from
localconfig.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change a bug when installed on win32

Actual Results:  
No mail arrives.

Expected Results:  
Patch is attached.

Don't confuse this with one of the "meta-bugs" for dealing with Win32.  I've
submitted fixes before that were groups under such meta-bugs.  The bug was
closed, 2.18 shipped, and the bug was still there.  It's a new bug in your
current shipping release.  If I have to patch every release, I will eventually
weary of patching and find a replacement.

Comment 1

[Clay Dowling]

Attachment: Use Net::SMTP to send bug notices

Comment 2

[Colin Ogilvie [:cso]]

Have you seen bug 277437 which has been checked in to use Mail::Mailer?

Comment 3

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 84876 ***

Comment 4

[Marc Schumann [:Wurblzap]]

On a related note, with the patch on bug 280911, the Win32 mail fix described on
http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/html/os-specific.html works again.