On Wed, 12 Oct 2011, Josh Triplett wrote: > End-user systems (desktops, laptops) typically handle mail via one > or more smarthosts elsewhere, driven by MUAs that know how to talk > SMTP.
While this definitely is the current state, it's not optimal. It would be ideal to have an MTA like esmtp or similar,[1] which was easily configured and could then be used by all things that need to send outgoing mail without configuring them directly. [Possibly with unified user configuration in .config/mail or similar which overrode the system configuration and could be written and read by any of the existing MUAs we have.] Instead of band-aiding over this problem, lets actually fix it. Don Armstrong 1: I personally use nullmailer, but because it doesn't support sendmail -bs or listening on localhost:25, it's probably not ideal as a default. -- We were at a chinese resturant. He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune cookie. -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111014230209.gb11...@rzlab.ucr.edu
