Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>]

Harald Braumann wrote:
> On Thu, 07 May 2009 08:01:11 +0200
> Giacomo Catenazzi <cate@debian.org> wrote:
>
> > No, most of users don't need a full MTA, but only a local MTA
> > (usually only sendmail command, but ev. only a socket listening to
> > localhost:25).
> > SO I would propose a more simple mailer (esmtpd, nullmailer, ...)
>
> No, please don't use an esoteric mailer. People who don't know and
> don't want to know about their local mailer don't need to know about
> Postfix' complexity. They can set up Postfix with a single debconf
> questions to a minimal configuration. And people who have to
> administrate multiple servers will have the same mailer on all of them,
> even if only some are real MTAs and the others just need to send mail.

ok, I see.

But the problem still exists: I installed esmtpd.
Currently there is not way for other package to tell
me that esmtpd is not enough.
Take as an example python. Unfortunately it doesn't provide
a sendmail function, so it is common for python program to
use smtp module and to connect to localhost port 25, to
send mails.
This will not work with my esmtpd.
I would really like to have something like:
  - default-mta set to exim5 (or postfix or...)
  - default-sendmail set to default-mta
  - exim, postfix, etc. provide both,
  - esmtp provides only default-sendmail.

Could we do this?

ciao
	cate