On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 14:32:21 -0500 (EST), "Greg A. Woods"
<woods@???> wrote:
>I think this also very much underscores the argument that a full MTA
>should not be used on a workstation regardless of whether or not there
>are some things like daemons running on that system which might like to
>use e-mail to communicate reports to the system manager.
How should the daemons on a intermittently connected workstation
communicate with their owner?
>Given all this perhaps there's a simple way to configure Exim so that it
>can only accept mail via the command-line interace and so that it can
>only deliver mail to a local transport?
In fact, that's the default configuration of the Debian exim4
packages. And yes, we have been yelled at because of the "unuseable"
MTA.
> MUAs on that workstation should be configured to fetch mail
>from the local primary user's spool file as well as whatever remote POP
>and/or IMAP accounts the user might use.
At least one of the more popular MUAs for the text console has only
_very_ rudimentary POP and IMAP capabilities which is generally
considered a feature.
>Note I'm not suggesting this be the default configuration of Exim
>(e.g. how it runs without configuration files) -- but rather that it be
>the custom configuration supplied by system designers who are providing
>a workstation environment.
Please not that this is not the case for Debian GNU/Linux, which sees
itself as the Universal Operating System. So we'll have to do
something for all possible uses.
Greetings
Marc
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