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Re: [fetchmail]Should fetchmail default to delivering through procmail?

2001-10-01 04:08:11
On Mon, 01 Oct 2001, Jorge Godoy wrote:
Debian will not follow that default. It would produce an unacceptable
dependency on procmail.  I'd have 200 people on my doorstep claiming for my
liver if I added such a dependency (I use procmail myself, btw).

What's the default MTA and respective MDA in Debian?

Default MTA: exim
Default MDA: exim

Same if you use postfix, the default MDA is the one bundled with the MTA. I
have no idea about sendmail, smail, zmailer and others.

Are DNS lookups needed at all in single-drop mode? Are there any MTAs
braidamaged enough to refuse mail from localhost due to DNS issues (and if
there are any, do we care) ?

Having DNS lookups is useful for rejecting messages with unexistent
domains --- usually SPAM. I use this feature here. It checks the
Sender: address. 

Wouldn't that be done better by the MTA? Still, I did not ask whether they
were useful; I asked if they are required... so that it can be made optional
in fetchmail.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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