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Philipp Hug
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 Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 5:40 pm Post subject:
MTA in base system installation
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Is it really necessary to have a full blown MTA in the base installation?
Wouldn't it make more sense to just install a simple store-and-forward proxy
(e.g nullmailer)?
Or are there other alternatives that just provide a sendmail wrapper?
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Stephen Frost
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Joined: 07 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:10 pm Post subject:
Re: MTA in base system installation
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* Philipp Hug (debian@hug.cx) wrote:
| Quote: | Is it really necessary to have a full blown MTA in the base installation?
Wouldn't it make more sense to just install a simple store-and-forward proxy
(e.g nullmailer)?
Or are there other alternatives that just provide a sendmail wrapper?
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Well, would you like cron to *work* on a base installation? I would,
not that I'm exactly happy about exim being the choice, but whatever.
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Don Armstrong
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject:
Re: MTA in base system installation
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On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Philipp Hug wrote:
| Quote: | Is it really necessary to have a full blown MTA in the base installation?
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What the hell is a "base installation"?
| Quote: | Wouldn't it make more sense to just install a simple store-and-forward proxy
(e.g nullmailer)?
Or are there other alternatives that just provide a sendmail wrapper?
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Install whatever you want. You're free to install nullmailer, ssmtp,
etc.
Anything that Provides: mail-transport-agent; will work just fine;
ala:
courier-mta
esmtp-run
exim
exim4-daemon-heavy
exim4-daemon-light
masqmail
nullmailer
postfix
sendmail-bin
smail
ssmtp
xmail
zmailer
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Christian Perrier
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 6:30 pm Post subject:
Re: MTA in base system installation
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Quoting Don Armstrong (don@debian.org):
| Quote: | On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Philipp Hug wrote:
Is it really necessary to have a full blown MTA in the base installation?
What the hell is a "base installation"?
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....what you get when installing from scratch and choose no task in
tasksel.
You then end up with exim4 installed.
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Philipp Hug
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject:
Re: MTA in base system installation
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| Quote: | What the hell is a "base installation"?
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The list of packages that gets installed by d-i/debootstrap...
| Quote: | Install whatever you want. You're free to install nullmailer, ssmtp,
etc.
I know I can replace it with whatever I want, that's not the point. |
I'm just wondering if it makes sense to have a full MTA installed by default.
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Don Armstrong
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Joined: 22 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2005 9:50 pm Post subject:
Re: MTA in base system installation
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[First off, please follow debian list policy and refrain from Cc:'ing
me. Secondly, this discussion is more appropriate for -user, not
-devel. MFT set appropriately.]
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Philipp Hug wrote:
| Quote: | What the hell is a "base installation"?
The list of packages that gets installed by d-i/debootstrap...
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debootstrap doesn't install anything that requires a
mail-transport-agent.
| Quote: | Install whatever you want. You're free to install nullmailer,
ssmtp, etc.
I know I can replace it with whatever I want, that's not the point.
I'm just wondering if it makes sense to have a full MTA installed by
default.
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It does if you want mail to be deliverable locally on a machine
without a network connection at all. It's really a personal decision,
and exim is probably a reasonable default.
Don Armstrong
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