Re: [PATCH RFC 09/10] send-email: Minor cleanup of $smtp_server usage and send_message()
From: Stephen Boyd <hidden> Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:35
Michael Witten <mfwitten <at> gmail.com> writes:
be specified by the 'sendemail.smtpserver' configuration
option; the built-in default is `/usr/sbin/sendmail` or
`/usr/lib/sendmail` if such program is available, or
- `localhost` otherwise.
+ `127.0.0.1` otherwise. Also, if <host> is the empty string,
+ then a built-in default is used.
Does this help anyone? localhost at least doesn't change when/if ipv6 is used,
whereas '127.0.0.1' is only for ipv4.