On 2018-10-16 15:40, Graeme Fowler via Exim-users wrote: > > I agreed that systemd should allow exim to work on current rules. But I > > don know how can I argue to Lennart Poettering to change his mind. > > You can't :) > > What you've shown us is (in my opinion) an incredibly niche case which > has a variety of options available already to fix it. I have *never* > heard of a systemd unit being used to send an email itself - I'm not > saying it doesn't happen, but it seems a rather esoteric thing to do > (to me). Of course, several hundred people will now tell me that they > do it too! > > I dare say you could probably do something with the runtime > configuration too, or with the configuration of the 'mail' command - > which you set in /etc/mail.rc, ~/.mailrc or similar
I think this is a misunderstanding both on the part of Lennart and on the part of Graeme. The example systemd unit shown by the OP was just _a test_. The real use case with a problem (or at least a potential problem) is not a human user sending mail with mutt or /bin/mail or whatever, but a service sending mail as a means of communicating status. Sometimes such services have no run time configuration item to change how mail is sent. I think this is the case with Vixie cron as used in Debian, even today. One could argue that the bug is in the service, and I'd tend to agree. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com. -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
