On Mon, 2013-07-08 at 10:46 +0200, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > Please note that the default-mta as shipped by Debian (exim4) in its > default configuration is not sending mails "to the internet" at all. If > your LSB-based assumption is that you can invoke sendmail to send mails > to anyone, then it is not fulfilled by default-mta either.
This is a good point. However, I still see it as an improvement - at least local mails can be sent. The LSB even stipulates that sendmail exiting 0 does not guarantee successful delivery (which seems reasonable to me). > So, taking a step back, sendmail, as currently shipped by default-mta, > only ensures that mails are sent to local users. In that context, I see > many uses for a sendmail erroring out instead of an working sendmail > piling mails in local mboxes never read by anyone. Who says they never get read? By default, cron sends local mails for example - in fact, I would love to know how lsb-invalid-mta affects cron in this regard. Does this mean nobody gets notified when a cron job fails? If so, this is really bad. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
