From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sending bug reports without setting up email
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:06:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3twfk1h9i.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <375d7040-05cb-377c-5df9-d345087291ee@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Wed, 20 Jul 2016 17:01:50 +0200")
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:
> Sorry, I've lost track of why you wanted direct access to the list of
> name servers. Something about looking up MX records for gnu.org when
> half-a-dozen other bits of code don't work?
Yes, for sending bug reports without setting up mail...
> For something that esoteric maybe it'd be simpler to hard-code the IP
> addresses.
It's also useful slightly more in general. For instance, the way to
upload blog posts to wordpress.com is to make a HTML email with embedded
images. Their MTA accepts huge emails, while your local MTA is unlikely
to, so sending it directly to their MTA is the way to go.
And you could also see somebody who is very security conscious, I mean
paranoid, would want to send emails via TLS directly to the recipient's
MTA without going through the NSA, I mean intermediaries.
So there's three use cases. :-)
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-20 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-09 13:50 Sending bug reports without setting up email Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 18:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-09 18:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-09 19:03 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-05-10 15:02 ` Paul Eggert
2016-05-11 20:55 ` daniel sutton
2016-05-11 21:00 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-11 21:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-11 21:17 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-05-12 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-05-11 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-07-20 13:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-20 15:01 ` Paul Eggert
2016-07-20 15:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2016-07-20 16:07 ` Paul Eggert
2016-07-20 16:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-20 16:27 ` Paul Eggert
2016-07-20 16:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-07-20 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-07-21 10:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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