Re: [desktop] Installation of mail server by default

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Georg Lehner <Jorge.Lehner@gmx.net> wrote:
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> 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).

I can see that some people might need such a beast but this wouldn't
be a good default MTA, because most machines want to be able to send
remote mail. OTOH exim isn't bad as default MTA because it works well
for fully connected sites and non-connected sites and dial-up systems.

BTW if you install exim4 with frontend noninteractive you'll get a
setup that only listens on 127.0.0.1 and doesn't do remote deliveries.
                  cu andreas