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| DATE | 2008-10-23 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Re: [opensuse] Getting Rid of postfix and exim on my laptop
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:08:57AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
> Ruben Safir wrote:
>
> [snip]
> > Its worse than that though. If you remove cron a whole cascade of
> > problems crop up.
> >
> > In the end I downloaded the rpm and querried the files for postfix
> > and ran a script to just remove them by hand.
> >
> > It's just unbelievable and I can never tell what Yast will do. It
> > wasn't always like this. You used to have more control
> > up to and including 9.3
>
> AFAIR, you were never able to deselect the MTA - unless you forced it.
>
It doesn't allow that any more. You "fixed" it.
> > Every SuSE Desktop host needs a SMTP and the port open? No, obviously
> > they don't.
>
> Ah, yes they do
Oh no they DON'T and if an OS in my enterprise had to has an SMTP
server on every desktop I'd had the security detail scrub every
damn machine until that OS was gone.
I do not need 50,000 possible soures of SPAM.
Ruben
> and the MTA will only be listening on localhost:25.
> There are about a million scripts that depend on being able to use
> sendmail (the mail delivery utility, not the MTA) for notifying root
> about all kinds of events. Basically you need sendmail, and only the
> MTA packages provide that. Second, in order for those mails to be
> processed, you need an MTA which in turn can deliver them to your
> inbox, which you can subsequently access with TB or mail or telephathy.
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich
>
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