Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread E Frank Ball III
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 05:35:57PM +0100, Milan P. Stanic wrote: > On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 12:03, Axel Caspard wrote: > > I am curious to know why you would like to see bind replaced with dbndns? > > The same as for exim: security records. The first thing I do on a Debian installation is rip ou

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Dirk Hartmann
Am 01.11.2012 um 18:40 schrieb Oleg : > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 05:31:07PM +0100, Maurizio Cimaschi wrote: > A usual end user (not an admin) doesn't know anything about MTA. He > just want that simple thing works right without his intervention. He > has no time and interest to study several MTAs

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Oleg
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 05:31:07PM +0100, Maurizio Cimaschi wrote: > On 01/11/12 14.48, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > So I suggest switch from Exim to Postfix for default MTA. > > > I would suggest to drop the idea of a default MTA. I do not see any > usefulness in having default applications. The less

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Ruslanas Gžibovskis
that's the perfect choice :) but would be perfect to make, some sort of extended expert instaler, to change MTA, DE, DNS and other software... but it's another question... :) but i fully agree about ssmtp :) i try to use it on all my Linux'es and only one has something different. -- Ruslanas

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Maurizio Cimaschi
On 01/11/12 14.48, Hideki Yamane wrote: So I suggest switch from Exim to Postfix for default MTA. I would suggest to drop the idea of a default MTA. I do not see any usefulness in having default applications. The less software got installed by default the better. Let anyone install the MTA (

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Milan P. Stanic
ent: Thursday, 1 November, 2012 10:53:19 AM > Subject: Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1) > > On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 22:48, Hideki Yamane wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Now we are using Exim as default MTA, but I doubt whether it'd be best > > c

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Axel Caspard
I am curious to know why you would like to see bind replaced with dbndns? - Original Message - From: "Milan P. Stanic" To: debian-security@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, 1 November, 2012 10:53:19 AM Subject: Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1) On Th

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Milan P. Stanic
On Thu, 2012-11-01 at 22:48, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > Now we are using Exim as default MTA, but I doubt whether it'd be best > choice since several critical security vulnerabilities has found this > two or three years. > > Yes, it's often that such vulnerability has been found for softw

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
On 2012-11-01 13:48, Hideki Yamane wrote: So I suggest switch from Exim to Postfix for default MTA. What's the point of discussing this now, while we're frozen and it can't be changed anyway? Wouldn't it be better to put your time into fixing RC bugs so we can release? In any case I do not

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 10:48:46PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > So I suggest switch from Exim to Postfix for default MTA. This has been discussed in depth fairly recently on debian-devel. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/04/msg00719.html The short answer, from my recollection of that t

Re: idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Ondřej Kopka
Hi, that's great idea! Where can i vote for that ;-) ? Regards Ondřej Kopka On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > Now we are using Exim as default MTA, but I doubt whether it'd be best > choice since several critical security vulnerabilities has found this > two or

idea: switch default MTA from exim4 to postfix (wheezy+1)

2012-11-01 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, Now we are using Exim as default MTA, but I doubt whether it'd be best choice since several critical security vulnerabilities has found this two or three years. Yes, it's often that such vulnerability has been found for software (of course), however, other MTA like postfix has less vulne