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Re: Mail. Mail! Mail?
Bernard Leak wrote:
[in reply to why by default an MTA should be installed
in order to be able to send reports in the usual way]
Special system restrictions may make it
impracticable to install the expected tools, but this is really
a red herring.
Hmm...
Installing an MTA, whatever its size may be, has the potential
of introducing more work, more open ports, more firewall building,
more following the associated securitiy advisories absent a
firewall or not absent a firewall, more ...
The optimistic (wrt opennes of the network) default installation
settings of GNU/Linux distributions for example do not always
reflect the default installation policy in every network.
But typical mail sending programs can speak SMTP themselves, without
the help of a local MTA. As much as I like to assume that GNUnix
comes with (send)mail, an installation might thus have left them out
for good reasons.
In this case a hint like "c&p the report into a plain text message"
or somesuch might really be helpful. Or a WWW report collector with a
file upload input field?
-- Georg