Sat, 21 Apr 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > >Fri, 20 Apr 2007, by [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > >>Theo v. Werkhoven wrote: > >>>>Joachim Schrod wrote: > >>>> > >>>>Configuring a local mail systems means to configure and start a > >>>>local service that can send email (and deliver email from the local > >>>>to the local system, which is needed for other system services like > >>>>cron). Most service implementations (postfix, sendmail) involve a > >>>>running daemon process or at least a cron job to clean up the mail > >>>>queue. > > > >Btw: the Postfix sendmail drop-in still uses a queue, even without a > >running daemon, the user just has to flush this by hand (or by > >script) if the connection doesn't succeed immediately. > >I'm pretty sure the original Sendmail does this too. > > Eh? That's almost exactly what I wrote above (intermedieate text > removed to make it clearer). Only that I would not flush a queue by > hand, but would use cron for that.
I didn't read that carefully enough. > >>Otherwise you'll miss error messages. A Unix system without a > >>configured MTA is plain and simply misconfigured. To add a smart > >>host to this basic configuration is trivial in 99.99% of all cases. > >>(And Carlos' multi-ISP setup is the remaining 0.01%. :-) :-) > > > >There's not much to configure is there? A /etc/nsswitch.conf file, > >a /etc/hosts file and a /etc/aliases file afaik. > > Sorry, but I don't understand what you want to say here. What I'm trying to say is that there's no magic in sendmail.mc or main.cf to be configured in order to get a working SMTP client program. Answering the basic questions (with sensible data) while you setup a Linux system are enough. > I think, we agree that one should configure the MTA on a Unix host, > don't we? Depends, like I said, for embedded systems I do not see the point. For (normal) desktop and server setups I agree. > We seem to differ in our opinion if queue flushing should be done > automatically by a daemon process/cron job or by hand. I think > automatic flush is the sensible way to do it, and you seem to think > that manual queue flushing is preferable. No, what I say is that mail works with or without an automatic flush system. A daemon process is not absolutely neccessary to get mail out the system. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 13 26N , 4 29 47E. + ICQ: 277217131 SUSE 10.2 + Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kernel 2.6.18 + See headers for PGP/GPG info. Claimer: any email I receive will become my property. Disclaimers do not apply. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
