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
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