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Re: default MTA for sarge



On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 10:43:53AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Ever tried pressing enter repeatedly in response to exim's questions?
> This is my first reaction whenever I forget to yank exim at the
> beginning of the install -- it doesn't actually work... :)

Oh, actually, yeah, I remember now, it requires entering an email or "none"
for root mail. :)

> For a sensible default, we should have an MTA that takes local error
> mails and delivers them *somewhere*, even if this is only
> /var/mail/root, without any user interaction required.

Right. But this is an issue that's orthogonal to choosing which MTA software
to use, really.

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