Re: Eliminating mail-transport-agent from standard
On Thu, 30 May 2013 12:06:17 +0300, Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
wrote:
>On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 08:27:36PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
>> In addition to determining the MTA pulled in by default for packages
>> which require mail-transport-agent in order to function (the provider of
>> default-mta), I'd like to propose as a release goal that we not have any
>> MTA in standard anymore. I've actually worked towards this goal for a
>> while now, and made a fair bit of progress; this mail documents the
>> remaining work required, most of which is simple dependency/priority
>> changes and patch application.
>
>+1
>
>In this age of spam, installing email server should be explicit decision
>by system admin rather that something that becomes automatically when
>you install Debian.
What is the danger of having a local email server on the system, in
the way we install exim in the default?
Greetings
Marc
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