ken wrote:
I have never used a Linux (or any other Unix system, for that matter)
without a locally configured mail system -- it is a sure disaster
waiting to happen. Therefore I was never in your situation.
So if your organization asks you to set up 2000 workstations, you
install 2000 mail servers? They should give you a plaque on the wall.
On every Unix system deployment that I ever designed (and yes, I am
responsible for designing the global deployment of 10,000s of Unix
engineering workstations in multi-national automotive companies),
/usr/lib/sendmail can be used to _send_ email. None of these
workstations _accept_ email by SMTP, of course. That deployment is
trivial, as all these workstations use the same small MTA
configuration.
This capability is essential, even more so with a few thousand than
with a few workstations, to get all administrative emails from
system daemons (cron, lp (e.g., on Solaris), logcheck at the
site-specific syslog servers, host intrusion detection systems, and
others) to the sysadmin's work environment. To not get them is the
situation that I called "sure disaster waiting to happen". And
without a working MTA on a workstation, one doesn't get them, since
no sysadmin can login at 10,000s of workstations to check root
email locally.
But, as per your other email, since you continue to think that the
correct client-side configuration of sendmail or postfix is "to
establish a mail server", I rest my case. All other participants in
this thread understood and agreed with me, and I have better things
to do with my time than to argue with you.
Joachim
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