Rev. Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You need MTA. You just do. But you don't need a complex MTA. If you > consider sendmail the standard to judge by, most everything is smaller, > simpler, or better for personal systems. My personal choice for an MTA is > qmail. The savings in configuration and maintenance (or lack of needing to > do either) far outweighs the time required to wait and watch it compile.
To be fair: if you install qmail you also have to have gcc, bintools, make, libc*-dev, and maybe more. [Also, on a slow system without much disk it can take several hours to compile -- not that I think this is a likely consumer configuration for next year.] > You don't need ftpd and telnetd. You probably do need an http server for > documentation, but then again dhttpd is small and does the job nicely. Much better than a server would be a browser which supports cgi for local browsing. [Warning: this concept would need to be fleshed out before it could be implemented. Issues are: mime type issues for non-executables, mime-type issues from the result of a "cgi", handling of forms data without an http server, nph-, and maybe a wee bit more.] -- Raul -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
