Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Sun, 7 Jun 2020, Sad Clouds wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Jun 2020 16:19:20 -0700
> "Greg A. Woods" <woods%planix.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Delivering mail to a remote mail server requires MTA software that is
> > capable of delivering mail via the network.
> >
> > Postfix is a most excellent MTA that can be configured to deliver mail
> > via the network.
> >
> > Conveniently Postfix is also a most excellent MTA that can be
> > configured to (also) _receive_ mail via the network.
>
> I agree with you and I am not suggesting that Postfix is not good at
> what it does. I am questioning this aspect of system administration:
>
> "delivering mail to a remote mail server"
>
> I wonder if this is still relevant in 2020, when many people tend to
> use multitudes of VMs and container-per-application configurations.

Yes.

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