On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:09:07PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 10:34 +0100, Jonathan Dowland a écrit : > > There is an impedence mismatch between packages which consider an MTA and > > the > > sendmail interface to be standard and those desktop components that make no > > such assumption. If we are going to keep ensuring a local MTA/sendmail > > interface > > going forward, I'd love to see it better integrated into the desktop stack. > > (In > > fact I still battle debconf-stuff-on-top-of-exim from time to time, when I > > have > > a system where I don't want any local mail.) > > I don’t think desktop components lack integration with the MTA. For > example, evolution will use /usr/sbin/sendmail by default. The problem > is that usually, the MTA will not be configured to do anything useful, > so users are better off using an external SMTP server, usually with > authentication.
Also, a *lot* of mail servers, including those of Debian developers are rejecting mails on some stupid basis (like reverse DNS doesn't match EHLO[1], EHLO host not found, some f*ckwit RBL decided that since you're on a DSL IP range, you're a spammer, lack of a reverse DNS record at all[2], etc.), effectively rejecting mails that don't go through an ISP external SMTP server. Running your own MTA without a smart host is a PITA these days. So you're better off using an external SMTP server directly. Mike 1. alioth lists do that, now. 2. thanks to ipv6. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130528103957.ga28...@glandium.org
