On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 09:53:32 -0700, Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> wrote: >Hear, hear. "How do I deliver mail?" is a per-system setting, not a >per-application setting, and the move towards having MUAs talking SMTP >directly to send mail is a flawed model picked up on the Linux desktop from >certain other OSes. The right solution here is to fix the MTAs to be >configurable from the desktop, and fix the MUAs to use the MTA - *not* to >get rid of the MTA.
A lot of e-mail providers nowadays associate the SMTP AUTH data with the _user_, enforcing at least the envelope, if not the header sender to fit the account that has authenticated. This is a contradition to the Unix way of doing things, and our default MTA, exim, does not handle this situation particularly well. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/e1rgc8z-0002qf...@swivel.zugschlus.de
