On 15 May 2013 06:49, "Dan Mashal" <dan.mas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Adam Williamson <awill...@redhat.com> wrote: > > We now appear to have *four* virtual provides for mail servers: > > > > MTA > > smtpd > > smtpdaemon > > server(smtp) > > > > This seems a tad excessive. exim and postfix provide all four. sendmail > > provides MTA, smtpdaemon and server(smtp). Nothing else provides any of > > them (though if we could just agree on what any of them meant or what > > they were for, probably esmtp and ssmtp might want to). > > > > Nothing requires 'smtpd'. One thing each requires each of the others, > > just to make things nice and complicated: > > > > [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires MTA > > ratbox-services-0:1.2.1-8.fc19.x86_64 > > [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires "server(smtp)" > > sagator-core-0:1.2.3-6.fc19.noarch > > [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires smtpdaemon > > vacation-0:1.2.7.1-3.fc19.x86_64 > > > > Good lord. Anyone feel like injecting any sanity? Anyone have a long > > enough memory to know what the hell each of the different provides is > > meant for? I seem to vaguely recall that 'MTA' and 'smtpdaemon' were > > meant to express subtly different things, but I can't remember any > > details. > > Sanity: Switching to postfix?
That's a matter of opinion and completely unhelpful to this discussion. Adam, like you I seem to remember a subtle difference between MTA and the others. I think its because some MTAs only do local delivery, some do remote and some can do both. Eg sendmail needs procmail to handle the local part from distant memory. Peter
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