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phone_home on a mail module? (Score:1)

by dagolden (6584)

Normally, I'm totally opposed to a "phone_home" attempt hidden in a module, but this is for sendmail and it's in a test file.

Moreover, the author has this disclaimer:
# unattended Mail::Sendmail test, sends a message to the author # but you probably want to change $mail{To} below # to send the message to yourself.

So this one doesn't bother me so much, as it seems well-intended as part of a test instead of being something for tracking purposes.
There's probably a clever ways to test without actually need
- Re:phone_home on a mail module? (Score:1)
  
  by link (3402) on 2006.09.13 9:23 (#49997) Homepage Journal
  
  There is a warning when Makefile.PL is run but not very much time to cancel out if you really do not like the idea. A prompt would be nice.
  Not really too naughty , well compared to the CPAN module that (used to?) downloads some perl code from the authors website and eval it.
  
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