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Re: Some proposals about the Email-subsystem, was Re: RFC: OpenLDAP and TLS/SSL



On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 07:08:31PM -0600, Georg Lehner wrote:
> El jue, 22-08-2002 a las 12:47, Roland Bauerschmidt escribió:
> ...
> - Opcional MTA's:
> 
> Not every system uses an MTA, in fact a wealth of end-user PC's (the
> mayority) would be just fine with local delivery, and eventually
> utilities to fetch mail from a remote box, and pipe a queue of messages
> to a remote server.
> 
> On the other hand there are various popular alternatives for MTA's so a
> general choice in a lot of cases fails.
> 
> Proposal: By default no MTA will be installed.

Umm, this may sound silly, but how will you do local delivery if there is no
MTA installed?

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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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> arithmetic and those that can't.



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