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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: FC4 slimfast slimfest
From:       Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs () math ! uh ! edu>
Date:       2005-02-24 16:49:39
Message-ID: ufahdk1j42k.fsf () epithumia ! math ! uh ! edu
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>>>>> "DW" == David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:

DW> Both Postfix and Exim should remain, but it's just a question of
DW> which is the default. 

Honestly I would prefer that neither is the default.  Both have far too
much functionality for hosts which are not mail servers.

What's really needed is something tiny, optimized for a machine that
rarely sends mail, has a highly-available smarthost, and never
receives mail from the network:

Starts from xinetd on port 25 (localhost only).
Will queue if smarthost is unavailable.
Runs from cron to flush queue.
Submission interface is not setuid; it talks SMTP to smarthost or
 localhost.
Nothing else.

Exim has a mode which is close, but it rejects the message if it can't
talk to the smarthost.  Someone who really wants to run a mail server
can install one.

 - J<

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