On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 10:34, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
However if we are catering for the dumb user default install I tend
to
think we should not have *any* MTA (qmail, postfix, sendmail, courier or
exim) but use something closer to a MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) - maybe a
MIA (Mail Inject Agent) which punts everything off to a managed mail
system*. We should not be encouraging every tom, dick and harry to be
their own mail system administrator because there is pitifully low clue
levels in this field already.
Postfix can easily be configured as a null client and if you need a real
MTA you can easily change a few settings in the config and restart
postfix. No need for extra packages.
Jean-Rene Cormier