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Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system
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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