On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Josip Rodin wrote:
It's actually a bit fuzzy to me. Why should any user be able to do deliver e-mail to another user using only the MDA? A really simple reason against it is when the other user uses a MTA-side-mechanism to redirect their mail elsewhere (~user/.forward?),
That requires having an MTA installed in the first place!
In fact, we probably *should*, because it's not necessarily an effective notification interface in this setting - at least I've yet to see a desktop Linux user who actually reads their $MAIL. They just use a MUA that connects to outside mail accounts.
Fair enough. I just use an MUA that reads my $MAIL, and all mail, external and internal, is dumped there. I find it bizarre that MUAs reimplement mail fetching (after all, most users are using POP, not IMAP, where there's an excuse to have a client built into the MUA).
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