Re: MTA in base system installation

2005-02-17 Thread Don Armstrong
[First off, please follow debian list policy and refrain from Cc:'ing me. Secondly, this discussion is more appropriate for -user, not -devel. MFT set appropriately.] On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Philipp Hug wrote: > > What the hell is a "base installation"? > > The list of packages that gets installed

Re: MTA in base system installation

2005-02-17 Thread Philipp Hug
> What the hell is a "base installation"? The list of packages that gets installed by d-i/debootstrap... > Install whatever you want. You're free to install nullmailer, ssmtp, > etc. > I know I can replace it with whatever I want, that's not the point. I'm just wondering if it makes sense to have

Re: MTA in base system installation

2005-02-17 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Don Armstrong ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Philipp Hug wrote: > > Is it really necessary to have a full blown MTA in the base installation? > > What the hell is a "base installation"? ...what you get when installing from scratch and choose no task in tasksel. You then end

Re: MTA in base system installation

2005-02-17 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Philipp Hug wrote: > Is it really necessary to have a full blown MTA in the base installation? What the hell is a "base installation"? > Wouldn't it make more sense to just install a simple store-and-forward proxy > (e.g nullmailer)? > Or are there other alternatives that ju

Re: MTA in base system installation

2005-02-17 Thread Stephen Frost
* Philipp Hug ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is it really necessary to have a full blown MTA in the base installation? > Wouldn't it make more sense to just install a simple store-and-forward proxy > (e.g nullmailer)? > Or are there other alternatives that just provide a sendmail wrapper? Well, wou

MTA in base system installation

2005-02-17 Thread Philipp Hug
Is it really necessary to have a full blown MTA in the base installation? Wouldn't it make more sense to just install a simple store-and-forward proxy (e.g nullmailer)? Or are there other alternatives that just provide a sendmail wrapper? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub