Re: [desktop] Installation of mail server by default
Hello!
El mar, 18 de 03 de 2003 a las 10:04, Andreas Metzler escribió:
> Georg Lehner <Jorge.Lehner@gmx.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > It's a pitty there is no delivery-only mailer available in Debian.
...
> 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
The point of a no-mta is not avoiding remote deliveries, it's the open
SMTP port and the respective handling of incoming mail.
If Debians gross policy would be: "don't do anything by default that is
not required, then let the user decide what to install aditionally", it
boils down to local deliveries only, by default.
The actual practice is also very restrictive if someone wants to
experiment with one mailer or the other. The conflicting point is just:
port 25 and the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary, however you have to purge a
whole, maybe carefully crafted, configuration if you want to test
another mailer. But that's maybe another story...
Regards,
Jorge-León
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Georg Lehner <Jorge.Lehner@gmx.net>
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