pop-con and reportbug can always do: escape($DATA); mail `host -tmx $DEST |perl` <<-EOF helo `hostname` mail from: <nobody@`hostname -f`> rcpt to: $TO data $DATA . EOF Maybe we should provide this for those packages, for uniformity? Justin On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:37:04AM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote: > * Tore Anderson > > > So, er, the only sane default is ?not working?? I must admit I disagree > > with you there.. What is the rationale for that? > > * Andreas Metzler > > > It is not "not working". It is doing local delivery, which is imho the > > only reason we have a MTA in the base-system. > > IMO a general-purpose MTA that is unable to send email in accordance > with RFC 2821 is best classified as "not working". > > Besides, base even includes an MUA. I certainly expect an MUA to be > able to send to remote destinations; the days where the most common use > of email was to send to and receive from users on the same system are > long gone. > > Then there's popularity-contest, which absolutely require an MTA that is > able to send email to remote destinations. Although not part of base, > d-i asks permission to enable it - but it won't work anyway as long as > Exim is configured with its default settings. > > I think reportbug also deserves mention here as a tool that we should > endeavour to have working with an absolute minimum of user configuration > required.
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