Re: Please consider replace src/dist/nvi with nvi2

[Zhihao Yuan <lichray%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 5:22 AM, Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost> wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Oct 2012, Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>>>
>>> What version of nvi did you start with?
>>
>> nvi-1.79 in FreeBSD's src/contrib/nvi
>
>
> OK, thanks.
>
>
>>> /usr/sbin/sendmail is the traditional way for programs to submit email,
>>> and it usually works well.  What problem did you have with that, and what is
>>> your solution in more detail?
>>
>>
>> As I said in my previous email, I wrote something wrong here. What I did
>> is to use socket(2) to send recovery mails in nvi's :preserve command, which
>> used _PATH_SENDMAIL before. virecover still uses sendmail, +uudecode in my
>> version.
>
>
> Do you mean that you open a socket to TCP port 25 and speak SMTP over it?  I
> would certainly not want that.  I don't have anything listening on port 25,
> but I do have a working /usr/sbin/sendmail.

How? I use getaddrinfo(3) to find a "smtp" service, and I think such
an assumption is already standard and reasonable enough.

>
> I see that the version of nvi in NetBSD invokes "sendmail -t" (in the
> rcv_email() function in src/dist/nvi/common/recover.c). It might be a good
> idea to add the "-odq" or "-odb" options to make it faster.  I don't think
> it makes a difference with postfix sendmail, but with sendmail sendmail,
> "-odq" should make it just queue the message, and "-odb" should make it
> deliver in the background.  The default is set in sendmail.cf, and might be
> equivalent to "-odf", to deliver in the foreground.
>
> --apb (Alan Barrett)



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