On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:26:18AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> In another post I mentioned that the only reason I have a local mail daemon
> setup on some machines is to allow reportbug to work. It occurs to me that
> perhaps (*PERHAPS*) during the install we could query:
what about cro
On Sunday 13 July 2003 02:24, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> I would lean towards exim4 configured for local delivery only. It is a
> sane default for just about every system. The admins who know they want
> another MTA can easily replace exim and the users who have no clue what a
> MTA does have
On Sunday 13 July 2003 06:26, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
>
> I know, but that location (/var/mail/root) is discouraged, isn't it? The
> admin shouldn't read his/her mail under uid 0. That's why I think that
> exim should ask this question when it is configured for local delivery (or
> in "newbie" mode
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:00:10 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> If you installed exim4 and used frontend=noninteractive or just press
> on every debconf-question you should end up exactly with this:
> local delivery only.
In this case, it was the exim3 package, which had a non-debconf
configuration
On 13-Jul-03, 07:48 (CDT), Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> If you installed exim4 and used frontend=noninteractive or just press
> on every debconf-question you should end up exactly with this:
> local delivery only.
But that's several more questions that many users, especi
Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> Since woody didn't release with exim4 at all, I'm all for releasing with
> exim 3 by default
Releaseing with exim 3 is not an option unless someone converts it to
use debconf for configuration. Sorry.
>, having exim 4 there for people who want it, and then
> in sarge+1
Micha? Politowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:21:05 +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
> [...]
>> Fair enough. Is the upgrade path from exim3 to exim4 utterly smooth?
>> If not, we should make it optional which to choose, if it is utterly
>> smooth then let's have exim4 by de
Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:50:07 +0200, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>> Enough of a Linux system assumes that a MTA is present that not
>> installing any would be wrong. Asking an user which MTA they want is
>> equally wrong because many users have no clue w
Daniel Silverstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Fair enough. Is the upgrade path from exim3 to exim4 utterly smooth?
It is not utterly smooth but as smooth as I could make it.
> If not, we should make it optional which to choose, if it is utterly
> smooth then let's have exim4 by default, o
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 19:55, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:30:08 +0200, ZHAO Wei wrote:
> >
> > I, for one, don't want there be a MTA by default. At least not a running
> > daemon there.
>
> What about inetd (which is IMHO the current default)?
Indeed I don't want inetd on my
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:55:12 +0200, Sebastian Kapfer wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:30:08 +0200, ZHAO Wei wrote:
>
> >> So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
> >
> > I, for one, don't want there be a MTA by default. At least not a running
> > daemon there.
>
> What about inetd (which is I
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 13:21:05 +0100, Daniel Silverstone wrote:
[...]
> Fair enough. Is the upgrade path from exim3 to exim4 utterly smooth?
>
> If not, we should make it optional which to choose, if it is utterly
> smooth then let's have exim4 by default, or at minimum a 'one of' choice
> of things
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 12:30:08 +0200, ZHAO Wei wrote:
>> So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
>
> I, for one, don't want there be a MTA by default. At least not a running
> daemon there.
What about inetd (which is IMHO the current default)?
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 11:50:07 +0200, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> Enough of a Linux system assumes that a MTA is present that not
> installing any would be wrong. Asking an user which MTA they want is
> equally wrong because many users have no clue what one is.
I strongly support this. A week or
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 01:25:02PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Daniel Silverstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Since woody didn't release with exim4 at all, I'm all for releasing with
> > exim 3 by default, having exim 4 there for people who want it, and then
> > in sarge+1 swapping it over f
Daniel Silverstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:31:51AM +0200, Joey Hess wrote:
>> For sarge we have two options for the default MTA in base:
>> a. replace exim with exim4
>> b. no MTA installed by default, add a MTA task
>> So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
>
Joey Hess writes:
> So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
IMO yes.
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On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 10:31:51AM +0200, Joey Hess wrote:
> For sarge we have two options for the default MTA in base:
> a. replace exim with exim4
> b. no MTA installed by default, add a MTA task
> So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
Since woody didn't release with exim4 at all, I'm all
On Sun, 2003-07-13 at 16:31, Joey Hess wrote:
> For sarge we have two options for the default MTA in base:
>
> a. replace exim with exim4
> b. no MTA installed by default, add a MTA task
>
> So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
I, for one, don't want there be a MTA by default. At least no
On Sunday 13 July 2003 01:31, Joey Hess wrote:
> For sarge we have two options for the default MTA in base:
>
> a. replace exim with exim4
> b. no MTA installed by default, add a MTA task
>
> So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
I would lean towards exim4 configured for local delivery only.
David B Harris wrote:
> However, if b) is chosen ... doesn't this cry for a category, not a
> task? Or perhaps even a one-off frontend that lets one select from the
> list of 'grep-available -FProvides -sPackage mail-transport-agent'?
Not really, that's what aptitude is for. You would chose the ta
On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:31:51 +0200
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For sarge we have two options for the default MTA in base:
>
> a. replace exim with exim4
> b. no MTA installed by default, add a MTA task
>
> So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
I would opt for a) personally. Exim
For sarge we have two options for the default MTA in base:
a. replace exim with exim4
b. no MTA installed by default, add a MTA task
So do we want there to be a MTA by default?
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