[svlug] sendmail help

[J C Lawrence]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:32:54 -0700 
Derek Balling <dredd at megacity.org> wrote:
> At 10:15 AM -0700 10/3/01, J C Lawrence wrote:
>> On Wed, 3 Oct 2001 00:37:41 -0700 Marc MERLIN
>> <marc_news at valinux.com> wrote:

>> Note that some MUAs, most notably MH and derivatives, deliver
>> mail by SMTP to port 25 on localhost.

> Ugh.... really?

Sooth, and its even an almost common approach.

> Seems rather (silly,crazy,insane,stupid){rand} to add another
> layer of complexity to the issue unnecessarily, especially since
> there plenty of systems in the world that don't WANT an MTA
> listening on ANY port, and just have queue-runners clearing out
> the queues....

Typically the systems that have such constraints also don't have an
interest in running the types of mail systems I'm referencing (eg
MH).

> Heads on pikes, I tell ya, for that design. ;-)

I'll confess I rather like it.

-- 
J C Lawrence
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