Subject: Re: bin/30040: some MTA stuff
To: None <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/23/2005 18:38:26
On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:32:01PM +0000, Sascha Retzki wrote:
>  > >Fix:
>  > 
>  I forgot the fix:
>  - Don't distribute two MTAs

Why ? This way the user has the ability to chose which one to use.
Although which MTA to ship, and which one to use by default is
controversial, I don't see any fundamental problems with having several
MTAs shipped with the system.

>  - Don't use idiotic, wrong or insecure default configurations

How is the default sendmail idiotic, wrong or insecure ? The default
configuration allows local mails to be delivered (output of cron jobs,
virecover, etc ...) and to send remote mails to remote MTAs in the
majority of installations (for the benefit of send-pr). It doens't
listen on any public IP, only localhost. I don't see any problems here.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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