On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 11:26:33PM +0000, Pete Barnwell wrote:
| [snip]
| >| Mozilla and Communicator (4.x and 6.x) do, and most of the newer
| >| KDE and Gnome MUA's do as well.
| >
| >Yes, but many of them are fairly buggy or unstable. SMTP is just one
| >more feature the developers must get right in all their free time ;-).
| >
| >| So, you don't *have* to use an MTA on a workstation,
| >
| >What if my cron job fails? How will it notify me? What if something
| >goes wrong on the workstation, how will it notify the admin (I'm
| >thinking of tripwire or other monitoring tools)?
|
| Assuming that you mean you the user of the workstation then you could
| always set up Procmail to deliver mail. OK it would only deliver mail
| locally, but that's what's required here.
It would take some work to get "/usr/bin/sendmail" to correctly become
"/usr/bin/procmail" for all processes.
| >| That said, if you *do* understand how your choice of MTA works, that you
| >| really don't have a real 'local' domain, and how to make it use a
| >| smarthost, that is a perfectly valid setup.
| >
| >Systems should have this setup out-of-the-box (as much as possible).
| >I don't know if the 'eximconfig' program is a Debian-thing or if it
| >comes from Philip or someone, but it works very well to create an
| >exim.conf. It can create a smarthost configuration (given the name of
| >the server) or it can create a "real" internet site configuration.
|
| The only snag with having a MTA set up 'out of the box' is that it can't
| be setup correctly (unless the packager's mastered ESP ;-));
Right, but I did say "as much as possible".
| and you can guarantee that however good the install/config routine
| is some lusers simply won't know what to put in the fields.
That can happen, but you can make the interface as simple as all those
gui mailers are.
| Presumably this is why I see so much mail floating around with a return
| address of '@localhost.localdomain'...
Perhaps.
-D
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Microsoft encrypts your Windows NT password when stored on a Windows CE
device. But if you look carefully at their encryption algorithm, they
simply XOR the password with "susageP", Pegasus spelled backwards.
Pegasus is the code name of Windows CE. This is so pathetic it's
staggering.
http://www.cegadgets.com/artsusageP.htm
