Sat, 21 Apr 2007, by jschrod@acm.org:
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Fri, 20 Apr 2007, by jschrod@acm.org:
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
Joachim Schrod wrote:
Configuring a local mail systems means to configure and start a local service that can send email (and deliver email from the local to the local system, which is needed for other system services like cron). Most service implementations (postfix, sendmail) involve a running daemon process or at least a cron job to clean up the mail queue.
Btw: the Postfix sendmail drop-in still uses a queue, even without a running daemon, the user just has to flush this by hand (or by script) if the connection doesn't succeed immediately. I'm pretty sure the original Sendmail does this too.
Eh? That's almost exactly what I wrote above (intermedieate text removed to make it clearer). Only that I would not flush a queue by hand, but would use cron for that.
I didn't read that carefully enough.
Otherwise you'll miss error messages. A Unix system without a configured MTA is plain and simply misconfigured. To add a smart host to this basic configuration is trivial in 99.99% of all cases. (And Carlos' multi-ISP setup is the remaining 0.01%. :-) :-)
There's not much to configure is there? A /etc/nsswitch.conf file, a /etc/hosts file and a /etc/aliases file afaik.
Sorry, but I don't understand what you want to say here.
What I'm trying to say is that there's no magic in sendmail.mc or main.cf to be configured in order to get a working SMTP client program. Answering the basic questions (with sensible data) while you setup a Linux system are enough.
I think, we agree that one should configure the MTA on a Unix host, don't we?
Depends, like I said, for embedded systems I do not see the point. For (normal) desktop and server setups I agree.
We seem to differ in our opinion if queue flushing should be done automatically by a daemon process/cron job or by hand. I think automatic flush is the sensible way to do it, and you seem to think that manual queue flushing is preferable.
No, what I say is that mail works with or without an automatic flush system. A daemon process is not absolutely neccessary to get mail out the system. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: muadib@jabber.xs4all.nl Kernel 2.6.18 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org