On Wednesday 28 September 2005 22:54, Steve Lamb wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: > > So you don't run logcheck and don't want output from cron or at jobs? > > I think that's unusual among Debian users. > > No logcheck and on a *desktop* machine know how much I use cron and > at? Tha answer lies somewhere between -1 and 1 and has no decimal > place.
Fair enough. I use all three very regularly, and I doubt I'm the only one. > > Good point, but that mail is still going to sit there *until* the MTA > > starts working again. I thought you were arguing against the > > necessity of having one there at all? > > If you read carefully I constantly say "no matter what the > interface used to connect to it." That's the cluebat sized hint that > SMTP is an interface which could fail. If one handles failures for > SMTP, as one must, then one could just as easily handle failures for a > local MTA. > > A basic queue != "MTA functionality". Sorry. Sooner or later, stuff needs to get out of that queue. That's where MTA functionality comes in. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
