Re: [PATCH RFC 09/10] send-email: Minor cleanup of $smtp_server usage and send_message()

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 16:58, Stephen Boyd [off-list ref] wrote:

Michael Witten <mfwitten <at> gmail.com> writes:

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      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.

Ah. Good point. I'll get rid of that change.