Re: Please participate in popularity-contest
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 08:28:29AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 10-Aug-04, 04:37 (CDT), Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org> wrote:
> > Again, I'm aware that it is possible to override the default values
> > and thus enable all of Exim's functionality. What I'm arguing is that
> > ?internet site? should be the default preselected choice, just like it is
> > in the Exim 3 package. That way remote email will work in most cases
> > without demanding that the user must configure the MTA differently than
> > the default.
>
> And that way people bitch about having port 25 open by default.
exim4-config from testing/unstable only listens on localhost by default.
This points to the problem that the first two options ("internet site;
mail is sent and received directly using SMTP" and "mail sent by
smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail") are deceptive, and probably
contribute to people not having working outgoing mail. They should make
it clear that SMTP won't be open to the world by default.
With this clarification, I think that "internet site" is a sensible
default. Despite firewalls and blacklists, this does work most of the
time.
Andrew
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