about sending mercurial commit notification email script on windows...

[Martin Geisler]

"Klasky, Hilda B." <klaskyhb at ornl.gov> writes:

Hi Hilda

> Thank you very much for your email.
> Yes, I've enabled the notify extension on the three platforms.

Okay, good :-)

> But, on OSX and Linux calls the mail command, nor a python email
> library, unless I am missing something (?) this does not seem to work
> on windows and looks like we need to write our own.

Mercurial is not calling mail (or sendmail) by default. See the method
setting here:

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html#email

and the [smtp] section:

  http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/hgrc.5.html#smtp

In other words, Mercurial can use your normal SMTP server just like any
other program.

-- 
Martin Geisler

VIFF (Virtual Ideal Functionality Framework) brings easy and efficient
SMPC (Secure Multiparty Computation) to Python. See: http://viff.dk/.
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