Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-25 Thread sean finney
On Wednesday 24 October 2007 05:42:57 pm Joerg Jaspert wrote: On 11182 March 1977, Marco d'Itri wrote: Thoughts? Flames? Let me have it! :) Let's just switch to postfix, exim is way too much complex for most applications. No. if we ever switch away from exim, which we should, (a move

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-25 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:42:57PM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: Something like nullmailer or ssmtp. Sadly, both of those are pretty crappy. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Soren Hansen
derivatives is going to agree on a preferred mta (Debian has traditionally preferred exim4, while Ubuntu traditionally has preferred postfix, just to name a few), it has been suggested to add a meta package (called default-mail-transport-agent or something to that effect) that each distribution can

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 24, Soren Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thoughts? Flames? Let me have it! :) Let's just switch to postfix, exim is way too much complex for most applications. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11182 March 1977, Marco d'Itri wrote: Thoughts? Flames? Let me have it! :) Let's just switch to postfix, exim is way too much complex for most applications. No. if we ever switch away from exim, which we should, (a move the exim maintainer sure would love :), less bugreports), the only

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Joerg, * Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 17:44]: On 11182 March 1977, Marco d'Itri wrote: Thoughts? Flames? Let me have it! :) Let's just switch to postfix, exim is way too much complex for most applications. No. if we ever switch away from exim, which we should, (a move

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.10.24.1742 +0200]: No. if we ever switch away from exim, which we should, (a move the exim maintainer sure would love :), less bugreports), the only good option is to use a package that does not listen on any interface by default and just does

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Joerg Jaspert [Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:42:57 +0200]: No. if we ever switch away from exim, which we should, (a move the exim maintainer sure would love :), less bugreports), the only good option is to use a package that does not listen on any interface by default and just does local delivery.

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Hi, No. if we ever switch away from exim, which we should, (a move the exim maintainer sure would love :), less bugreports), the only good option is to use a package that does not listen on any interface by default and just does local delivery. [...] Wouldn't this make it more difficult

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Michael Biebl
Nico Golde schrieb: Hi Joerg, * Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 17:44]: On 11182 March 1977, Marco d'Itri wrote: Thoughts? Flames? Let me have it! :) Let's just switch to postfix, exim is way too much complex for most applications. No. if we ever switch away from exim, which we

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Bernd, * Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 19:04]: No. if we ever switch away from exim, which we should, (a move the exim maintainer sure would love :), less bugreports), the only good option is to use a package that does not listen on any interface by default and just does

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Steve Greenland
On 24-Oct-07, 11:52 (CDT), martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also sprach Joerg Jaspert [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.10.24.1742 +0200]: No. if we ever switch away from exim, which we should, (a move the exim maintainer sure would love :), less bugreports), the only good option is to use a

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
reportbug is able to talk smtp to bugs.d.o directly, reportbug-ng allows the user to select a MUA to edit and send the mail. Yes that's true however the default configuration should be changed then. Doesn't reportbug just ask how to submit bugs while starting it the first time? IMHO

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Bernd, * Bernd Zeimetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 19:49]: reportbug is able to talk smtp to bugs.d.o directly, reportbug-ng allows the user to select a MUA to edit and send the mail. Yes that's true however the default configuration should be changed then. Doesn't reportbug

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:00:20PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Just tried by doing an aptitude purge reportbug aptitude install reportbug since I haven't installed a fresh system for quite some time, but it didn't ask at least on this system here. I would imagine it's in $HOME/.reportbugrc.

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Daniel, * Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 20:25]: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:00:20PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Just tried by doing an aptitude purge reportbug aptitude install reportbug since I haven't installed a fresh system for quite some time, but it didn't ask at

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Nico Golde said: Hi Daniel, * Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 20:25]: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:00:20PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Just tried by doing an aptitude purge reportbug aptitude install reportbug since I haven't installed a fresh

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Stephen, * Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 20:35]: This one time, at band camp, Nico Golde said: Hi Daniel, * Daniel Jacobowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 20:25]: On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:00:20PM +0200, Nico Golde wrote: Just tried by doing an aptitude purge

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Nico Golde wrote: The question was if you get asked how to report bugs on install this should have nothing to do with what the user has in his home directory. Of course it should; reportbug needs to know who is sending the mail, and the proper place to store that is in the

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Nico Golde
Hi Don, * Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-24 20:42]: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Nico Golde wrote: The question was if you get asked how to report bugs on install this should have nothing to do with what the user has in his home directory. Of course it should; reportbug needs to know

Re: Default mail-transport-agent

2007-10-24 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Nico Golde wrote: Oh ok thank you, that explains why it didn't work here even with deleting the config files, there is an MTA configured. Uh... it asks you the questions even if there is an MTA configured. Don Armstrong -- Identical parts aren't. -- Beach's Law