On 07/22/2014 03:26 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
As long as it can put email in /var/spool/mail...
NOT! *VERY* NOT! That's the whole thing wrong here. So here an I (and many others) reading mail using Thunderbird (or similar) as a 'thin' client trying hard not to store the mail on this lightweight machine. Maybe we're doing a Netbook, Chromebook, or Tablet or a think client on a network. Whatever, it doesn't matter. So I have many IMAP accounts out there. I'm not thinking in terms of local mail. I'm not sure I can even point Thunderbird at /var/spool/mail/anton Lets stop for a moment and think. So here I am at TimHortons sipping my coffee and reading my mail on on Wrote Linux? There's no on-board SMTP server and with the file inspector I can see there's no /var/spool/mail. Conclusion: Linux doesn't need an on-bard smtp server or /var/spool/mail. Corrollary: any programs that FORCE the use of a smtp server or write directly to /var/spool/mail are brain damaged and should be fixed.
Some of those apps also expect a "sendmail" binary. Postfix keeps one just for that purpose.
A true observation that misses the point. We need to identify those apps and fix them. In the distant past I used to alias just about everything, including root and postmaster, to an 'anton' address off site, at one of the addresses where I can read the email using T'Bird. In the long run I found there was very little that came though. -- Bullet proof vest vendors do not need to demonstrate that naked people are vulnerable to gunfire. Similarly, a security consultant does not need to demonstrate an actual vulnerability in order to claim there is a valid risk. The lack of a live exploit does not mean there is no risk. -- Crispin Cowan, 23 Aug 2002 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org