Re: [exim] Re: Debian exim

On Saturday 24 September 2005 21:45, Steve Lamb wrote:

>     Quite frankly desktop machines shouldn't have SMTP servers on
> them at all. 

That depends on your definition of desktop.

> Any program sending mail should be able to handle a
> failure of the MTA and act accordingly regardless of how that MTA is
> contacted; SMTP or /usr/bin/sendmail.

Cron and at require a working MTA on the local machine (I think
nullmailer is probably sufficient).