Jon Masters <jonathan(a)jonmasters.org> writes:
What's the benefit of having no default MTA at all? Is it that
Desktop
users don't care about MTAs being installed? what about those of us who
care more about server installations than Desktop?
I have desktops with no MTA. I can read mail on them using remote
pop3/imap (with ssh), sending mail also uses ssh and /usr/sbin/sendmail
on remote machine. Alternatively, SMTP to a smarthost. Plays nicely with
e.g. Emacs/Gnus.
There is absolutely no need for a local MTA there.
On my servers the "default" MTA doesn't matter either, I'm using
a specific program rather than a random default.
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Krzysztof Halasa