Re: Please participate in popularity-contest
On 2004-08-09 Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org> wrote:
> * Tore Anderson
> > Furthermore, last I checked the Sarge installer (beta 4, IIRC) the
> > MTA was for some reason not capable of sending email to remote
> > destinations. Enabling the poularity contest would just result in a
> > cascade of bounces with the message «Mailing to remote domains not
> > supported».
> * Andreas Metzler
> > exim4's default is local-delivery only, because it is the only sane
> > default.
> So, er, the only sane default is «not working»? I must admit I disagree
> with you there.. What is the rationale for that?
It is not "not working". It is doing local delivery, which is imho the
only reason we have a MTA in the base-system.
[...]
> In my opinion a sane default setting for a fully-flegded MTA like
> Exim would be to ask if the user had any specific SMTP submission service
> at his ISP or wherever he'd like to use, and if not - mail is sent
> directly using DNS/SMTP. YMMV.
Dear. Just look at it. That is what is happening. You just have to select
the right option.
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General type of mail configuration:
internet site; mail is sent and received directly using SMTP
mail sent by smarthost; received via SMTP or fetchmail
mail sent by smarthost; no local mail
--> local delivery only; not on a network
manually convert from handcrafted Exim v3 configuration
no configuration at this time
cu andreas
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