Re: default MTA
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:09:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 10:34 +0100, Jonathan Dowland a écrit :
> > There is an impedence mismatch between packages which consider an MTA and the
> > sendmail interface to be standard and those desktop components that make no
> > such assumption. If we are going to keep ensuring a local MTA/sendmail interface
> > going forward, I'd love to see it better integrated into the desktop stack. (In
> > fact I still battle debconf-stuff-on-top-of-exim from time to time, when I have
> > a system where I don't want any local mail.)
>
> I don’t think desktop components lack integration with the MTA. For
> example, evolution will use /usr/sbin/sendmail by default. The problem
> is that usually, the MTA will not be configured to do anything useful,
> so users are better off using an external SMTP server, usually with
> authentication.
Being able to send outgoing mail, and to handle local (such as SMTP rejects
or notifications from system daemons) seems plenty useful to me.
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