Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-18 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:08, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:42:42AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: An open outgoing port 25 is commonly blocked by default anywhere you have non-incompetent network management, unless you are on the

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-18 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Thu, 18 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: No, you sounded like you wanted to enforce the installation of an MTA on every system and only support that (since all systems would have one why bother with anything else?). Drop the only and change that to by default always, and you will have

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 04:55 +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:16:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Ignorance, fear of becoming an open relay and years of learning will have to be overcome before Most Users will config Debian to use a relayhost. It's not very

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 13:11 +0200, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: chatting). Most people don't run their own mail servers and can easily be convinced by the ISP to use a mail client like Lookout, which is pointed at the ISP's outbound mail server. Personally, I think it is a

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-18 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: On Wednesday 17 May 2006 23:08, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Except that most customers don't know what a port is, nor much less care that any are blocked (unless it prevents them from playing everquest or chatting). Most people don't run their own mail servers

Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: which results in smtphost bugs.debian.org in the conffile. Maybe the default to the MTA question could be N instead. An open outgoing port 25 is commonly blocked by default anywhere you have non-incompetent network management, unless you are on

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:42:42AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: An open outgoing port 25 is commonly blocked by default anywhere you have non-incompetent network management, unless you are on the business of selling full internet uplinks for server hosting, or you do business

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:42:42AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: An open outgoing port 25 is commonly blocked by default anywhere you have non-incompetent network management, unless you are on the business of selling full internet

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:42 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Wed, 17 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: [snip] What exactly is the problem with making a local MTA absolutely mandatory, (as in anything that sends email either recommends or depends on mail-transport-agent)? Of

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 17 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: which results in smtphost bugs.debian.org in the conffile. Maybe the default to the MTA question could be N instead. An open outgoing port 25 is commonly blocked by default anywhere you

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:42:42AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: An open outgoing port 25 is commonly blocked by default anywhere you have non-incompetent network management, unless you are on the business of selling full internet uplinks for server

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Ron Johnson wrote: The d-i people, or the m-t-a people? That's where you define what kind of service you want. You'd not just have to bluntly ask, but firmly recommend that they install the m-t-a as a relay host. (Once a desktop user like me figures out what a relayhost is, and that it

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And how would that be any simpler than setting an smtp server for reportbug? Setting up a fully usable MTA is more difficult than having reportbug connect directly to bugs.d.o. I'm sorry, but that is just plain wrong. aptitude install postfix What type of

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Goswin von Brederlow wrote: And how would that be any simpler than setting an smtp server for reportbug? Setting up a fully usable MTA is more difficult than having reportbug connect directly to bugs.d.o. I'm sorry, but that is just plain

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: You mean connection from random user ports to destination port 25? Yes. If you are at a place where that is the case then you should have an IT team or admin that will tell you what smtp host to use or even install your system. We do. So

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Jeroen van Wolffelaar
On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 03:16:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Ignorance, fear of becoming an open relay and years of learning will have to be overcome before Most Users will config Debian to use a relayhost. It's not very difficult to have exim, the default MTA, simply not launch an smtp

Re: Why not making /sbin/sendmail a mantadory component for mail operation?

2006-05-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 17 May 2006, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: delivered internaly or not at all for my chroots but I still want to be able to report bugs with the right dependency informations. If you force the use of an MTA then I would have to save