Re: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)

[Christian Franke <Christian dot Franke at t-online dot de>]

Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> On 2014-08-28 18:25, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > Corinna, Christian, Daniel, Pierre,
> >
> > While I'm working out the details of allowing all your MTA packages to
> > coexist, it would be helpful if you could clarify under what
> > circumstances, if any, you expect that your MTA could function as
> > /usr/sbin/sendmail for the purposes of sending outgoing mail without any
> > configuration on the part of users.

The postfix sendmail emulation would at least require that postfix is 
running as service/daemon. With default configuration, postfix sends 
email directly to destination MX server. This won't work in many use 
cases (direct access blocked by firewall, destination port 25 blocked by 
anti-virus application or ISP, connections from dynamic IP addresses 
rejected by MX, ...).


> Christian,
>
> I know you're still working on some runtime issues with postfix, but 
> could you provide a file list so I can see what your package may look 
> like when it's ready?

Attached is a tar -t output of current draft postfix package (excluding 
the -doc and -debug packages). The conflicting names already have a 
.postfix extension.

Christian

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