[darcs-users] changes needed for darcs push on win32?

[David Roundy]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:59:53AM +0200, Peter Strand wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:46:38AM +0200, Shae Matijs Erisson wrote:
> > I would guess that darcs push doesn't work on win32.
> > Would it need anything other than SMTP sending and calling GPG for signing?
> 
> [ darcs currently needs /.../sendmail ]
> 
> I guess the correct way to send mail is to use the windows Messaging API,
> especially the MAPISendMail function looks useful ;)
> 
> It shouldn't be too much work to interface that, I think..

Yeah, that seems like it would be the best solution.  I looked into it a
little bit, and couldn't see offhand how to specify the recipient address
with MAPISendMail, but I'm sure it must be possible.

> One alternative is of course to write write a small smtp-mailer and
> include it in darcs, not much work to do something simple, but means we
> have to know which mailserver to use and it will not work for mailservers
> requiring fancy clients (authentication or ssl or ...).

That's another possibility, but as you say, could add considerable
complexity.  I guess a really simple SMTP client might make sense as a
backup if /usr/sbin/sendmail isn't found.  And, of course, being able to
configure the path of sendmail would be reasonable, if there are people
with a sendmail in a different location.
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David Roundy
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