Re: [desktop] Installation of mail server by default
Hello!
El sáb, 15 de 03 de 2003 a las 11:27, Bob Proulx escribió:
> Matthew Forrester wrote:
> > I always thought the installation of EXIM by default was rather strange,
At least it is rather cumbersome to install "by default" a different mta
on a large set of Workstations.
> > If you want a mail server your almost certainly going to want a specific
> > mail server,
>
...
> > and after all your only going to want one per network.
>
> Excuse me? Perhaps for you. But to me it sounds absurd that there
> will only be one MTA per network! Even if there are no users on a
> machine then errors from cron or other processes are forwarded by smtp
> to centralized admin machines. That would be true even if the
> "typical" user were a pop user. True even on a kiosk machine.
The majority of computers to be installed would not be mail-exchangers
or pop-toasters, but "end-point" workstations. Having an mta installed
on them by default is a security risk or aditional work for the system
administration (or user) because
a) local delivery has to be insured to get the whole bunch of system
logging (logcheck), cron, at, etc. to work.
b) The incoming SMTP service has to be disabled
...
> It is true that a low end thin client that never cares about any mail
> forwarding (including errors and other administrative mail) can
> probably do without an MTA. If you are willing to discard the mail
> because you have made the decision to do so. Those sound like toy
> hobby machines. Which are valid and perhaps a fine candidate for
> nullmailer. But certainly nullmailer is not a valid candidate for the
> default installation.
nullmailer is not precisely a candidate for toy machines, because it
needs a remote MTA where to send all the (system generated) mails to.
Well at least in my setups, where a user or "sysadmin" account gets all
the system stuff.
It's a pitty there is no delivery-only mailer available in Debian.
Such a thing(y) could really be installed as default MTA: all local mail
will be delivered to local user accounts, remote mail is bounced to an
administrative account (or to some kind of outgoing queue).
Best Regards,
Jorge-León
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Georg Lehner <Jorge.Lehner@gmx.net>
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