Re: default MTA

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> writes:

> 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.

And which requires storing passwords or other authentication credentials
on disk if your external SMTP server requires authentication (increasingly
common), which is bad security practice (not to mention awkward for a lot
of people to configure).  Whereas using an external MTA directly in the
mail client means the mail client has the ability to prompt you
interactively for authentication credentials or use the system keyring to
store them, which is somewhat more secure.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>