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Re: Please participate in popularity-contest



On 10-Aug-04, 04:37 (CDT), Tore Anderson <tore@debian.org> wrote: 
>   Again, I'm aware that it is possible to override the default values
>  and thus enable all of Exim's functionality.  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.

And that way people bitch about having port 25 open by default.

I suppose the ideal default would be "able to send mail remotely, but
not receive it." Of course, then you wouldn't get delivery failure
notices, but it's been so long since I got a valid one, I'm not sure
that's a big deal.

In any case, this isn't going to happen for sarge...

Steve


-- 
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world.       -- seen on the net



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