On 09/26/2008 11:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
Hi.
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:38:34 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote
Surely the SMTP server isn't absolutely required to be on localhost?
I never send any mail via localhost SMTP, it's all done through my
company's mail servers or the Google ones for personal mail.
Unfortunately, sendmail isn't just a program, it's an API. Calling
/usr/lib/sendmail has been the way to get mail out (whereever out
is) in UNIX for, well, as long as sendmail exists, which is quite some
time.
Yes, it seems odd that it bothers someone now when computers are
orders of magnitude faster than when this scheme was designed.
That does not mean that it has to be "the" sendmail, of course.
Oh, and LSB requires that it's there.
Postfix is probably the only alternative that has all of the expected
functionality, but really the effort should be focused on the only
real issue here which is that starting the daemon can cause a visible
delay at boot time - and there are several easy fixes for that.
what's wrong with exim (not that I like or recommend it, but it is there
and it works) ?
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