Sergey B Kirpichev wrote: > I think you argue quite convincing against this feature yourself in the > discussion thread you refer to. I agree with all your points and may only add > this; Delivering alert mails to an external server is a sound principle > incase the server should have a e.g. a disk crash. Ten years ago it may have > made sense to add this feature, but in todays cloud and virtual servers > environment doing local alert mail delivery is becoming a corner case. So, no > we will not add this feature and even if we got a patch for it I'm not sure > we would include it.
I see that both of you concentrate only on one aspect of my request. I still think that I should choose what software do I use for mail delivery and since I already have a MTA configured (msmtp-mta package) which uses an external SMTP server to send out email - every piece of software, which tries to send mail locally, uses msmtp without even knowing about of its existence. What I'm trying to say is that I didn't have to configure ten programmes to use GMail - I configured one and all other software uses it transparently - starting with cron, logcheck, fwanalog, "you name it". Delivering mail to an external server is a great feature - I don't deny it. I don't really understand your argument about local delivery - you do allow to use "localhost" as the server anyway - you don't ask the user whether the delivery is local-only or using a smart-host, do you? Well, my case is exactly the same - you don't need to know whether it is local only or not - the only difference is that the software I use doesn't listen on port 25. And why should it - the less open ports, the better. Implementing usage of /usr/sbin/sendmail or /usr/lib/sendmail doesn't seem that much harder than implementing SMTP support in monit. Anyway, thanks for trying. I really appreciate that you went all the way upstream with this one ;^) Keep up the good work, -- Raf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
