80284 - Centralize sending mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 59351

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, defect)

Description

[Jan Evert van Grootheest]

During an installation on a WinNT machine, I centralized the sending of mail.
This made it a lot easier to replace sendmail with something else. Here's the
patch (including the code to use Mail::Internet instead of Sendmail).

Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 59351 ***

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

Jan: I didn't see your patch here...  if it's different from the one on the other 
bug I just marked, go ahead and upload it to that bug for comparison.

Comment 3

[Jan Evert van Grootheest]

Attachment: Centralize sending of mail

Comment 4

[Jan Evert van Grootheest]

The patch is there now (for some reason or another, friday I couldn't create the
attachment.
Please keep in mind these are the first lines of Perl I've written in my life.
Check it for dangerous and/or insecure things.

The patch is complete (all sendmail call have been replaced) and is based on the
2.12 distribution, so it also knows about delayed delivery with sendmail.
As a bonus, there's the code to use the perl Mail::Internet module to send mail
using smtp. Probably to make something useful out of that, it needs to become a
parameter whether to use sendmail or Mail::Internet and in the latter case
(probably) also the mailhost needs to be defined (but that can also be left to
the perl configuration).

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

moving to Bugzilla product
reassign to default owner/qa for INVALID/WONTFIX/WORKSFORME/DUPLICATE