On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 05:01:16PM +0200, Dumas Patrice wrote:
> 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.
sendmail may be invoked from the command line by any user. In fact,
you can use it in place of a MUA if you're *really* strange.
I guess the point is that you don't have to be running an SMTP service
to make use of sendmail.
> 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.
Not at all. My organisation (guess?) has sendmail installed on *every*
workstation, although most of the deployed MUAs don't use it. The
stock configuration relays to smarthosts only. This isn't at all
unusual. Kinda like running a caching-only instance of named on every
workstation, it can be useful. Especially for someone such as myself,
who isn't keen on the deployed MUAs.
cheers
j
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