Re: Mini 10v
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:52:09AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 September 2009 06:04:50 Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:39:14PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > > Considering the class of machine this is (highly portable,
> > > personal machine) it is highly unlikely that it would ever needs a
> > > resident MTA.
> >
> > I agree with "it would ever needs a resident MTA".
>
> Odd. My highly portable, personal laptop runs an MTA (which doubles as an
> MDA) that I use for sending both local and remote mail. The MTA just uses my
> VPS as a smarthost for remote mail, but it handles local mail so I can get
> notifications from cron, anacron, at, etc.
>
> All UNIX and Linux boxes should have an MTA. It doesn't always need to listen
> on 25 or 587, but both postfix and exim4 support that.
Who decided? I do not understand your justification. Unless it breaks
something, we are free to configure it to our taste.
You could run "exim -q" from command line or cron if you need to queue mail
going out. But we do not need to let MTA live as daemon and uses up
resource all the time, if we wish.
MTA is required on Debian because cron needs it, as I understand.
Osamu
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