Re: MTA for firewalls, etc. ?
On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jan 1998, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> > 1. Some Debian packages require a MTA, i.e., they depend on
> > mail-transport-agent. However, we've not documented anywhere what this
> > exactly means. I've checked out a few packages now and it looks like a
> > `mail-transport-agent' is a package which provides /usr/lib/sendmail.
> > Is this correct? If so, we should state it in the Policy Manual.
> >
> > 2. One some hosts (i.e., software routers or firewalls) one does
> > not want to run large (and insecure) mailer daemons as sendmail,
> > etc. However, since some important packages like "cron" depend
> > on mail-transport-agent, one has to satisfy this dependency
> > somehow. (Overriding dpkg does not help in the case of "cron", since
> > cron sends possible error messages via mail, and these messages should
> > not be thrown away.)
>
> my solution to problems like this is to just install sendmail and edit
> the /etc/init.d/sendmail script so that sendmail doesn't get started
> as a daemon. sendmail is extremely easy to configure in debian - the
> sendmailconfig script is wonderful!
[snip]
Thanks for the input! I've already considered using sendmail, so I'll
probably do this.
Thanks,
Chris
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