On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 12:59:26PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 08:48:24AM +0800, ha shao wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 11:10:19PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I'm not familiar with postfix, but the DS (smart relay) in sendmail > sucks anyway. It will check for MX RR for the host you specified. For
hmm... I will consider this as a good thing. sendmail sucks as many people said, though. > example, my ISP told me I should use msa.hinet.net as my smtp > server. But what the hell is `host -t mx msa.hinet.net`? I finally > would get a "Relaying denied" by msa0.hinet.net. That's quite > disappointing. > What's the hell is wrong with your ISP? Why its mx points to something that doesn't do mx? > > Heh, well, I'm not advocating anything. But, if I only need merely a > "Desktop", why should I have giants like sendmail/postfix/exim? They > should be removed anyway. Mail server is the job of my ISP, not my > own. > very true, but someone prefer to use fetchmail with a MDA which is also a full scale MTA. -- Best regard hashao
