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



On Fri, 08 May 2009 08:12:35 +0300
Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> wrote:

> pe, 2009-05-08 kello 11:43 +0800, Paul Wise kirjoitti:
> > I find the notion of a "default MTA" to be silly. Most desktops or
> > laptops or cellphones proably do not need an MTA. 
> 
> I'd agree, were it not for cron.

At which point, I begin to wonder if 'cron' and 'at' cannot simply be
told to use a log file if no MTA exists. Alternatively, create a
dummy-mta that converts MTA requests into log files without all the
mail headers.

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