Bug 132385

Summary:	mod_mailcommand -- Enhance elog with local mail delivery program capabilities
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	René Nussbaumer (RETIRED) <killerfox>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	High
Version:	2.2
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	136244
Attachments:	The elog module

Description René Nussbaumer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-05 14:17:39 UTC

mod_mailcommand do the same as mod_mail but in a local manner. It opens a sendmail compliant programm and pipes the mail to it. So there's no need for an SMTP.

The environement variables has some enhancements:

PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILCOMMAND="/usr/bin/sendmail"
Command to be used to send the mail.

PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILRECIPIENT="foo@bar.tld[ foo2@bar.tld]*"
Recipient(s) of the mail. More than one address is supported.

PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM and PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT are the same as in mod_mail.

The advantages of this module are: No need to set up and configure an SMTP (as relay), also if it only delivers mails to localhost.

Feedback would be nice :-). (This is my second python program).

Comment 1 René Nussbaumer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-05 14:19:01 UTC

Created attachment 86227 [details]
The elog module

Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-05-05 14:30:40 UTC

Already have a modified version of mod_mail to do that (for glsa-check, see tail of d.g.o/~genone/temp/glsa-check), gonna refactor the mail code out so it can be used by both elog and glsa-check.
Has to wait for 2.2 though (2.1 is in feature freeze).

Comment 3 Frank Schmitt 2006-05-05 15:10:14 UTC

i have testet mod_mailcommand with netqmail http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=mail-mta;name=netqmail as mta. It works fine.

Comment 4 Frank Schmitt 2006-05-05 15:11:02 UTC

i have testet mod_mailcommand on a sparc with netqmail http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=mail-mta;name=netqmail as mta. It works fine.

Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-10 15:50:50 UTC

I've extended the mail module so that I can take a sendmail compatible binary instead of a mailserver in PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILRUI in svn r3486.

Comment 6 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2006-06-16 10:01:25 UTC

This has been released in 2.1.1_pre1.