Re: default MTA
Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
> 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,
Moving the configuration from 1 package providing the MTA to N packages
is certainly not going to improve this...
> so users are better off using an external SMTP server, usually with
> authentication.
In what why does a local MTA prevent that?
The local MTA serves as a common configuration for the external SMTP
server, with a well known interface supported by every single package
which wants to send mail.
I don't see the point discussing this at all until there is an
alternative interface with a similar level of support. Otherwise you
are just going to repeat the MIME support mess again.
Bjørn
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