On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 7:24 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <h...@debian.org> wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2012, Aron Xu wrote: >> On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> wrote: >> > On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: >> >> Is this the right time to do it? >> > No. Cron needs some way to report about its jobs, mdadm has to notify >> > about >> > failures, etc, etc. >> > >> > On the other hand, going from a full blown MTA like exim to something like >> > ssmtp or dma¹ would be a great idea. >> >> Ah, but then we should remove the "Mail server" option from d-i, which >> is almost useless. > > No. We can keep it, it just doesn't need to be selected by default. >
Currently if I select only OpenSSH server and basic system tools in expert mode, Exim gets installed, too. > However, we really should switch the mail server option to something that > would be suitable for mail servers (i.e. something that doesn't play stupid > games with standards), such as postfix. I've advocated keeping the > status-quo in the past, but I was not aware of the exim4 brokenness. > > I agree that installing "mda" by default on desktop installs would be > useful. However IME, server installs are much better served by installing > postfix, even when they're not MTAs, let alone when they are MTAs... > I don't think installing mail servers for desktop installation can be _that_ useful, not all Debian users are power users who read system email and mutt (or likewise). -- Regards, Aron Xu -- 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/CAMr=8w4mtmk3-gz5acnoc2tzg_xqhfmzctbxkfvhy6xdc_a...@mail.gmail.com
