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Added some notes about sendmail.exe, because Sendmail may be usefuk for that even in 2014.


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This section corresponds to choosing a :param:`mail_delivery_method` of
:paramval:`Sendmail`.
.. todo:: Do we still need this? Why would anyone want to do this in 2014?
Unless you know what you are doing, and can deal with the possible problems
of spam, bounces and blacklists, it is probably unwise to set up your own
mail server just for Bugzilla. However, if you wish to do so, here is some
guidance.
mail server just for Bugzilla. However, if you wish to do so, some guidance
follows. Besides setting up a complete, local distinct mail server just for
Bugzilla, :paramval:`Sendmail` can as well be used if you really don't want
to do that: Especially on Windows there's a little application called
sendmail.exe_ which provides sendmail compatible calling conventions and
encapsulates the SMTP communication to another mail server. This may be
useful if you have trouble getting Perl packages for SMTP including encrypted
communication and such installed on Windows and therefore can't use Bugzilla's
buil-in support for SMTP. Like Bugzilla, sendmail.exe_ can be configured to
log SMTP communcation to files in case of problems.
.. _sendmail.exe: http://glob.com.au/sendmail/
On Linux, any Sendmail-compatible MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) will
suffice. Sendmail, Postfix, qmail and Exim are examples of common