On Thu, 07 May 2009, martin f krafft wrote: > Correct me if I am wrong, but I think those do not do queueing, > which will break the default assumption that I've seen almost > everywhere, which is that when sendmail returns, your email is > getting delivered, or you'll get a DSN.
Nullmailer does. > Nullmailer is not LSB-compliant. Because it doesn't implement -bs (#271662), which is of dubious value (and a part of the LSB specification which only seems to be there because real MTAs supported it; there's was no rationale given in the standards why it has to be there.) > And neither of the small ones handle mail to root on the local > system (cron, apticron, logcheck, etc.) in an acceptable manner, I > think. Nullmailer "handles" this by sending all of that mail to a single account. The main problem with nullmailer is that it currently can't handle messages which fail permanently (#329192). Don Armstrong -- Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise them in comfort. -- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
