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

[Wolf Wiegand <wolf@kondancemilch.de>]

Hi,

Christian Surchi wrote:

> ssmpt is not able to handle a queue, so I imagine that it needs
> necessarily a permanent connection with a smarthost... am I wrong? 

No, you're right.

> I don't like this one for *any* machine.

I wouldn't like this as the default debian setup. Risking losing mails
isn't an option.

Actually, for the default setup, I'd prefer a solution that targets the
Joe Normal-user who doesn't (want to) know what an MTA is for, because
he/she only uses an MUA that delivers mail to the provider's smarthost
anyway (Thunderbird or Evolution for example).

For example: By default, install a very minimalistic MTA that only
delivers mail to the local spool file (and that cannot be configured to
do anything else). Then introduce a way to notify the user when there's
new mail in the spool file and to directly show the mail to the user
(Maybe an extra tool running under Gnome or KDE. Or a default
Thunderbird/Evolution-configuration that will always fetch mails from
the spool file).

Everyone who needs more than this (probably most of the
debian-devel-audience, including me) can install $preferred_mta.


Cheers,

Wolf
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