Re: [exim] Re: Debian exim

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Author: Lionel Elie Mamane
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To: Steve Lamb
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Re: Debian exim
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 05:50:55PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
>> On Saturday 24 September 2005 21:45, Steve Lamb wrote:


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


>     I'd be interested in any definition of a desktop where an SMTP
> server would be a requirement and not a "nice thing to have" in lieu
> of some alternative for bad behaving utilities that can't manage the
> failure of the SMTP server be it local or remote.


Why should everyone reimplement a queue instead of just one program
implementing a queue on the machine? If the user wants to flush the
queue, why should he have to track the many different queues instead
of having just one to look at?

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Lionel