Re: MDA's was: Yet another Linux distribution! :-)
>'From Bill Leach <bleach@bellsouth.net>'
>
>I will take a look at sendmail because of Manoj's remarks since the only
>significant disadvantage to sendmail that I could see is that it can be a
>real tough one to set up properly (if you are a continuously connected
>mail server then it is almost a 'snap' to set up using the conventional
>sendmail configuration).
I don't see why it shouldn't be possible to make configuration just
as easy for a dial-up case. We need to figure out what the typical dial-up
cases look like and integrate them into the configuration as well.
>I don't consider myself to be stupid but the e-mail issue is really
>raising doubts...
>
>It should not require days of study of various documents, man pages,
>HOWTOs, example configuration files, etc. just to get an email system
>that:
>
>1) Places a vaild (to the ISP) From header on all internet bound mail
>(no matter what the user's local network name might be).
>
>2) Send all 'outbound' mail to a smarthost depending upon which ISP
>is in use.
>
>I realize that #1 is not really the MTA's 'responsibility' but it is the
>logical place for this to be accomplished since any place else in the
>'chain' is not unique (ie: there are too many mail composing software
>packages, most (AFAIK) won't let you muck with the headers (and really
>shouldn't).
>
>#2 IS the responsibility of the MTA but AFAIK none were designed with the
>idea that you might have different 'smarthosts' as different times.
#1 is simple to do, though it probably needs a few variants, depeding on
whether the machine serves an entire domain or just a sigle account/email
address.
#2 Might be doable using sendmail's smarthost "MX" feature (setting
the smarthost to a list of colon-separated hosts). With a bit of hacking
it shouldn't be hard to have it read it from a file on each delivery
attempt.
Regards,
/Anders
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