Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Fri, 20 Apr 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
>>Joachim Schrod wrote:
>>
>>Configuring a local mail systems means to configure and start a
>>local service that can send email (and deliver email from the local
>>to the local system, which is needed for other system services like
>>cron). Most service implementations (postfix, sendmail) involve a
>>running daemon process or at least a cron job to clean up the mail
>>queue.
Btw: the Postfix sendmail drop-in still uses a queue, even without a
running daemon, the user just has to flush this by hand (or by
script) if the connection doesn't succeed immediately.
I'm pretty sure the original Sendmail does this too.
Eh? That's almost exactly what I wrote above (intermedieate text
removed to make it clearer). Only that I would not flush a queue by
hand, but would use cron for that.
And yes, sendmail does this as well, and -- like Postfix -- has the
possibility to flush queues either by a daemon process or by
explicit command call.
And please note, even if we repeat us again and again: Alone for
messages from cron, postfix or sendmail must be configured.
Otherwise you'll miss error messages. A Unix system without a
configured MTA is plain and simply misconfigured. To add a smart
host to this basic configuration is trivial in 99.99% of all cases.
(And Carlos' multi-ISP setup is the remaining 0.01%. :-) :-)
There's not much to configure is there? A /etc/nsswitch.conf file,
a /etc/hosts file and a /etc/aliases file afaik.
Sorry, but I don't understand what you want to say here.
I think, we agree that one should configure the MTA on a Unix host,
don't we?
We seem to differ in our opinion if queue flushing should be done
automatically by a daemon process/cron job or by hand. I think
automatic flush is the sensible way to do it, and you seem to think
that manual queue flushing is preferable.
Joachim
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