On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 10:50 AM, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mail...@laposte.net> wrote: > > Le Ven 19 juillet 2013 20:16, Matthew Miller a écrit : >> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:37:35PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: >>> However, having the /usr/sbin/sendmail API available to applications >>> is valuable - it brings a significant system administration benefit of >>> centralizing the SMTP configuration. >> >> What does it mean to "have available"? As discussed earlier, I think it's >> significantly better for applications to get errors (which they can >> handle) > > ROTFL. They won't handle anything, they'll just test the "everything is > working" scenario. > > Having a standard way to use a real MUA, with actual support for SMTP > intricacies, proofed queuing logic, and single configuration store or > language, is a major reliability and operational boon. Every single time > I've seen an app disdain the local MTA because "it is not available on > non-*nix systems" it ended up badly the first time there was an error to > handle. And I'm quite sure any security audit of their SMTP logic would > have been dreadful.
Amen. If I see one more Java based non-RFC compliant, non-error-reporting piece of "I'll be an MTA when I grow up" debris shoved into a messaging application...... -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
