Re: default MTA for sarge

[Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>]

* Georg Nikodym <georgn@somanetworks.com>:

> > > 1. Can the mailer be set up, by default, with no questions, for
> > > sane, safe, *local only* delivery?
> > 
> > debconf offers this already
> >  
> > > 2. Can the mailer can provide a /usr/bin/sendmail that *only*
> > > requires an outgoing SMTP server, for mutt/reportbug/etc? But in no
> > > way should this overshadow 1.
> > 
> > debconf offers this already (satellite or relayhost)
> 
> Except if your outgoing SMTP server requires AUTH and/or TLS. 

Well, yes. But that's rather special, and for this the postfix-tls
package needs to be installed, not postfix.

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