Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 19:22 schrieb Yves Duret: On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:10:52AM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Han Boetes wrote on Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:30:42AM +0100 : --=-=-= Name: esmtp

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Yves Duret
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:59:11AM +0100, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: Content-Description: signed data So, where is the avantage of this package? Nevertheless you need a mailserver and postfix is capable of SMTP-AUTH, TLS and many more. And postfix is known to be stable and secure. freedom of

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2002 09:30 schrieb Yves Duret: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:59:11AM +0100, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: Content-Description: signed data So, where is the avantage of this package? Nevertheless you need a mailserver and postfix is capable of SMTP-AUTH, TLS and many more.

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Lonnie Borntreger
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 02:30, Yves Duret wrote: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 08:59:11AM +0100, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: Content-Description: signed data So, where is the avantage of this package? Nevertheless you need a mailserver and postfix is capable of SMTP-AUTH, TLS and many more. And

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Reser
Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 19:22 schrieb Yves Duret: not queueing mail means no mail written on a hard disk, wich means you can loose mail with a machine crash.. This package is no more vulnerable to losing mail because of a machine crash than postfix is. postfix can lose mail if the

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2002 10:04 schrieb Ben Reser: Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2002 19:22 schrieb Yves Duret: not queueing mail means no mail written on a hard disk, wich means you can loose mail with a machine crash.. This package is no more vulnerable to losing mail because of a

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:33:03AM +0100, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: To bind to a port less than 1024 you need root privileges. All mailports are less than 1024. so initialy you need root privileges. OK, you can drop it once you have bind to port 25 and change to a less privileged user. but

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:33:03AM +0100, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: No, postfix can't lose mail (at least in theory). postfix don't confirms the receiving of the mail until it is succesfully written to the spool directory. So you can loose mail if you use write caches in your system (OS ore

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Martin Fahrendorf
Am Mittwoch, 11. Dezember 2002 12:02 schrieb Ben Reser: On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 10:33:03AM +0100, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: To bind to a port less than 1024 you need root privileges. All mailports are less than 1024. so initialy you need root privileges. OK, you can drop it once you have

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-11 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:58:59PM +0100, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: Ah, I misinterpretes something. I thought esmtp was also listening. It is for sending out purpose only, right? Yup... it's simply a mail injector to accept mail for programs like mutt that inject mail through the

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-10 Thread Yves Duret
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:10:52AM -0800, Todd Lyons wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Han Boetes wrote on Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:30:42AM +0100 : --=-=-= Name: esmtpRelocations: (not relocateable) * supports the AUTH SMTP extension,

[Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-09 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Han Boetes wrote on Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:30:42AM +0100 : --=-=-= Name: esmtpRelocations: (not relocateable) * supports the AUTH SMTP extension, with the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms * support the

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-09 Thread Han Boetes
Todd Lyons ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Han Boetes wrote on Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 03:30:42AM +0100 : Name: esmtpRelocations: (not relocateable) * supports the AUTH SMTP extension, with the CRAM-MD5 and NTLM SASL mechanisms * support the StartTLS SMTP

Re: [Cooker] Re: [Contrib-Rpm] esmtp-0.2-1mdk

2002-12-09 Thread Ben Reser
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 08:45:10PM +0100, Han Boetes wrote: I hope everybody agrees with the fact I made a symlink from the binary to /usr/sbin/sendmail. I mean that's what makes it easy to use. Please use alternatives, and provide smtpdaemon and MailTransportAgent. Do not provide sendmail or