Re: postfix as default-mta? [Re: Bug#508644: new release goal default-mta?]
On Thu, 07 May 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le jeudi 07 mai 2009 à 13:23 +0200, Harald Braumann a écrit :
> > 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.
>
> How is that an improvement over Exim?
It isn't.
I personally find postfix to be lighter and I consider it saner, more secure
in theory, and much easier to configure for complex tasks. So, when asked
about it, I always say "switch to postfix". But if we remain with exim as
the default, you won't see me sad at all: it works, it works well, and it is
just as easy for the user to setup using debconf as postfix.
Although IMHO we really should tell people that "satellite" is the best bet
when they don't know what to answer (if we are not doing that yet). Heck,
I'd be happy if we only offered "satellite" and "local (no network)", as MX
operation requires a lot of other stuff that needs extensive configuration
nowadays (content filtering, AV, blacklists, etc).
Nullmailer and other reduced-functionality choices OTOH, is not something
*I* am prepared to tolerate in any server or workstation (in fact, not even
on desktops) where I work or at home. So, I will personally really hate it
if we switch to something like that by default.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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