Re: Please participate in popularity-contest
On 2004-08-10 Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org> wrote:
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> * Andreas Metzler
> > Dear. Just look at it. That is what is happening. You just have to select
> > the right option.
> Again, I'm aware that it is possible to override the default values
> and thus enable all of Exim's functionality.
"Selecting the correct choice" and "overriding the default values" are
different things, as far as my command of English goes.
> What I'm arguing is that
> «internet site» should be the default preselected choice, just like it is
> in the Exim 3 package. That way remote email will work in most cases
> without demanding that the user must configure the MTA differently than
> the default.
> I mean - how many users do you think are genuinely interested in
> configuring an MTA? My guess is: very very few - because most of
> them just want their email to work out of the box.
Well, "internet site" does not implement this for everybody without a
fixed IP address, which I'd guess applies to more than 90% of our
installations. Being listed on DUL guarantees that direct SMTP
delivery does not work _reliably_. Blocking outgoing connections to
port 25 except to smarthost is not uncommon either.
cu andreas
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