On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:01:16PM +0200, Dumas Patrice ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think there is an argument in favor of including rough support of
> MTA in mutt, which is that MTA handling should be a system
> administrator (root) task and not a user's task. It is especially
> true with MTA which listens on the SMTP port.
Then you've been misreading pretty much everyone's point thus
far. Sending mail is the task of an MTA, whether it be something that
someone who has the root password installed, or something that someone
who has a user's password installed. Listening on the SMTP port has
absolutely nothing at all to do with sending mail.
> When users haven't root privileges, it isn't possible to configure
> any MTA I know. Maybe there exits such a MTA, but I don't know it.
An MTA that is there to *send* mail does not have dto listen to
*receive* mail.
> It is my opinion, and I am not a sysadmin, but if I were ;-), I
> wouldn't like sendmail or even postfix to be installed on
> workstations, as I think it is bad and unusefull in a classical LAN
> architecture. sSMTP is a good replacement, but has to be configured
> by root.
This is not correct. Please try it before claiming it can't be done.
And you're right, you're *not* a sysadmin, because you seem to have
forgotten that there is much on a Unix system that sends mail other
than a full-screen MUA -- cron, for example. What's it going to use?
-Rich
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