On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 08:31, Jeff Waugh wrote: > <quote who="Bastien Nocera"> > > > We also need to think of a mail server. exim has a very good debconf > > script that asks most of the question one would need to setup his mail. > > Apart from one thing, it worked great for me (I need the mail software to > > send my mails automatically out when I connect onto my home network) > > nullmailer? > > [ Why would the user need a proper MTA? Hopefully our user-level mail > solution will handle all of that polava (eg. Evolution). nullmailer would be > good to have, because the 'primary user' could get admin mail from the > system if there were ever a reason to send any. ] I tried nullmailer, I didn't even get it to actually open port 25. Exim can be configured very easily through debconf, and I could come up with an easy to use GUI that does the same thing. The user would need a proper MTA for 1) daemon mails 2) programs that don't support sending directly to smtp (Bug-buddy, and certainly a lot of other programs as well). -- /Bastien Nocera http://hadess.net
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