Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> writes: > Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 10:34 +0100, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : >> There is an impedence mismatch between packages which consider an MTA and the >> sendmail interface to be standard and those desktop components that make no >> such assumption. If we are going to keep ensuring a local MTA/sendmail >> interface >> going forward, I'd love to see it better integrated into the desktop stack. >> (In >> fact I still battle debconf-stuff-on-top-of-exim from time to time, when I >> have >> a system where I don't want any local mail.) > > I don’t think desktop components lack integration with the MTA. For > example, evolution will use /usr/sbin/sendmail by default. The problem > is that usually, the MTA will not be configured to do anything useful,
Moving the configuration from 1 package providing the MTA to N packages is certainly not going to improve this... > so users are better off using an external SMTP server, usually with > authentication. In what why does a local MTA prevent that? The local MTA serves as a common configuration for the external SMTP server, with a well known interface supported by every single package which wants to send mail. I don't see the point discussing this at all until there is an alternative interface with a similar level of support. Otherwise you are just going to repeat the MIME support mess again. Bjørn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87k3mj9xbo....@nemi.mork.no
