On Sat, 16 Nov 2013 15:03:57 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote:

> My real question is, why can portage do this (send emails without a 
> local MTA installed)?

I already answered that, it uses Python's smtlib (or something equivalent,
I haven't checked). That's a core Python library and since portage
depends on Python it can be sure the library is available, which isn't
necessarily true of an MTA.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

3 things happen as you age: 1) Your memory goes; 2) uh..um

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