David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> Just like on a GNU/Linux system with postfix shut down (is that so? >>> can't check this lacking root access on our systems.) >> >> Could be, but that doesn't make the behavior correct on Mac OS X. > > Well, it's probably not good behavior on any system. ... > 1. This occurs in Postfix, which is not proprietary software. ... > 3. This will occur in any GNU/Linux system where the administrator > has stopped the postfix daemon, which may be a reasonable thing to do > when locking down a system.
As far as I can see there's nothing wrong with postfix. If you use postfix's sendmail to send a message while the postfix daemons are not running, it will get queued and sent as soon as you restart postfix. If you _never_ intend to start the postfix daemons, you shouldn't have postfix installed at all; then you won't be fooled by postfix's version of sendmail (which understandably expects that you will occasionally have postfix running!). If OS-X has postfix installed but doesn't start it by default, that's just sort of stupid; complain to Apple. [I'm not sure why they don't want to run it though -- postfix has a reputation as being very secure.] -Miles -- Run away! Run away! _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
