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RE: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)
- From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>
- To: "'Yaakov Selkowitz'" <yselkowitz at cygwin dot com>, <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:15:30 -0400
- Subject: RE: MTA packaging (exim, postfix, sendmail, ssmtp)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yaakov Selkowitz
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 19:25
>
> Corinna, Christian, Daniel, Pierre,
>
> While I'm working out the details of allowing all your MTA packages to
> coexist, it would be helpful if you could clarify under what
circumstances, if
> any, you expect that your MTA could function as /usr/sbin/sendmail for the
> purposes of sending outgoing mail without any configuration on the part of
> users.
Exim could send outgoing mail out of the box if the destination server can
be reached using dns.
With many ISPs blocking port 25, a gateway must usually be configured.
Of course a MTA does much more than sending outgoing mail, and that requires
configuring a service etc...
Because of that Exim is not currently packaged to do anything without
requiring configuration (in fact, out of the box exim is a symlink to
exim-config) , but it would not be hard to allow it.
Pierre