On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:09:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 10:34 +0100, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > > There is an impedence mismatch between packages which consider an MTA and > > the > > sendmail interface to be standard and those desktop components that make no > > such assumption. If we are going to keep ensuring a local MTA/sendmail > > interface > > going forward, I'd love to see it better integrated into the desktop stack. > > (In > > fact I still battle debconf-stuff-on-top-of-exim from time to time, when I > > have > > a system where I don't want any local mail.) > > I don’t think desktop components lack integration with the MTA. For > example, evolution will use /usr/sbin/sendmail by default. The problem > is that usually, the MTA will not be configured to do anything useful, > so users are better off using an external SMTP server, usually with > authentication.
Being able to send outgoing mail, and to handle local (such as SMTP rejects or notifications from system daemons) seems plenty useful to me. -- ᛊᚨᚾᛁᛏᚣ᛫ᛁᛊ᛫ᚠᛟᚱ᛫ᚦᛖ᛫ᚹᛖᚨᚲ -- 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/20130528101337.ga22...@angband.pl