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On 15 May 2013 06:49, "Dan Mashal" <<a href="mailto:dan.mashal@gmail.com">dan.mashal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Adam Williamson <<a href="mailto:awilliam@redhat.com">awilliam@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> > We now appear to have *four* virtual provides for mail servers:<br>
> ><br>
> > MTA<br>
> > smtpd<br>
> > smtpdaemon<br>
> > server(smtp)<br>
> ><br>
> > This seems a tad excessive. exim and postfix provide all four. sendmail<br>
> > provides MTA, smtpdaemon and server(smtp). Nothing else provides any of<br>
> > them (though if we could just agree on what any of them meant or what<br>
> > they were for, probably esmtp and ssmtp might want to).<br>
> ><br>
> > Nothing requires 'smtpd'. One thing each requires each of the others,<br>
> > just to make things nice and complicated:<br>
> ><br>
> > [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires MTA<br>
> > ratbox-services-0:1.2.1-8.fc19.x86_64<br>
> > [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires "server(smtp)"<br>
> > sagator-core-0:1.2.3-6.fc19.noarch<br>
> > [root@adam blivet (master %)]# repoquery --whatrequires smtpdaemon<br>
> > vacation-0:1.2.7.1-3.fc19.x86_64<br>
> ><br>
> > Good lord. Anyone feel like injecting any sanity? Anyone have a long<br>
> > enough memory to know what the hell each of the different provides is<br>
> > meant for? I seem to vaguely recall that 'MTA' and 'smtpdaemon' were<br>
> > meant to express subtly different things, but I can't remember any<br>
> > details.<br>
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> Sanity: Switching to postfix?</p>
<p dir="ltr">That's a matter of opinion and completely unhelpful to this discussion.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> Adam, like you I seem to remember a subtle difference between MTA and the others. I think its because some MTAs only do local delivery, some do remote and some can do both. Eg sendmail needs procmail to handle the local part from distant memory.</p>
<p dir="ltr"> Peter</p>