On Mi, 29 mai 13, 15:59:35, Russ Allbery wrote: > Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes: > > > Exim is a listening daemon, even if it listens only on localhost in the > > default configuration. I'd prefer dma instead. > > It's better to have a listening daemon on localhost. There's no security > threat, and there's some software that can't handle invoking a sendmail > binary and always wants to speak SMTP to some port. I've run into this > with both Java and PHP applications. This is, of course, possible to fix, > but I can understand why Java programmers aren't thrilled by the idea of > adding UNIX-specific code to fork and execute a program (which is > something that you generally don't want to do in Java, since it's very > expensive, and which is not portable), and similarly why web developers > aren't enthused by fork and exec in a mod_php or similar context inside a > possibly threaded web server. Maybe it makes sense to have virtual packages like mta-daemon, mta-forwarder, etc.? (regardless of which, if any, is installed by default) Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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