26 Mar
2019
26 Mar
'19
9:41 p.m.
On 3/26/19 4:12 PM, Grant Taylor via Mailman-Users wrote:
Sure, FetchMail can pull email from the ISP and inject it into the local server. But what advantage does that gain you? Is said advantage worth the complexity?
Apparently lennartwware-infested linux distros no longer require MTA, presumably because smtp is implemented inside systemd now. I'm not sure the "extra complexity" argument holds, though.
Before this, cron needed an MTA and stock maintenance stuff like log rotation ran from crontab. So there was more complexity in getting one set up without a local MTA, than in setting up postfix.
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