On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +0000, Will Lowe wrote: > > > I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA of > > > some sort (even if it's local-only, which is supported by eximconfig). > > This is true, but does it need to be world-accessible? There should > > be a way to either have it listen on localhost only, or not listen on > > Sure, don't run the daemon at all. When you install exim, "rm > /etc/init.d/rc?.d/S*exim" and it won't start. Local processes will be /etc/rc?.d/S*exim > able to send mail via the /usr/sbin/sendmail link, and there's a cronjob > in /etc/cron.d/exim that'll try to clear the queue twice an hour. > There was a discussion on this list earlier about creating a better way than just removing a link from /etc/rc?.d. Either it should work through update-rc.d or debconf. This is a lot neater than removing a link from the startup directories, which IMHO should not have to be touched directly by the administrator. > > and perhaps this should be the default (correct me if this is already > > the case, but I don't recall it being so). Would it be feasible to > > There isn't a default, it just leaves the package unconfigured, IIRC. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;; Matthew Danish email: mdanish@andrew.cmu.edu ;; ;; GPG public key available from: 'finger mrd@db.debian.org' ;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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