Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

[Rob Andrews <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 14-Jun-2006 10:40.58 (BST), Marcin Jessa wrote:
 > >  > and only leave a simple local delivery agent
 > >  > in the base system (something like mail.local), ... [snip]
 > > I agree totally with this. I've wondered for a while why the mailer is
 > > in the base system, and this way there's less effort in deactivating
 > > the base system mailer when installing a preferred mailer from pkgsrc.
 > That's becouse other components of the base system need an MTA.
 > Things like for example cron. Besides that peple may be unable to fetch
 > packages for different reasons and having a fully operating system with
 > an MTA integrated into system as rapporting tool is without doubt a
 > pluss.

I understand that, but that is why Oliver suggested having a local-only
delivery client (mail.local) kept in base to satisfy the other components
that need it. Which is what I was also agreeing with!

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