On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 09:49:59AM +1000, terryc wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 23:15:47 +0200
> tito via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 20:32:32 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
> > Kevin Chadwick via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
> >
> > > 1 Sept 2024 07:54:53 tito via Dng <dng@???>:
> > >
> > > > Yes,  I fully agree. The first thing I do when setting up a new
> > > > box is to remove the installed MTA (usually exim) and install
> > > > postfix
> > >
> > > Postfix is definitely more secure. Does the local system need an
> > > MTA or can you just disable Exim without replacing it on an average
> > > system with one person using it?
> >
> > I think it does need one MTA as long as you setup some monitoring
> > software like smartd, logcheck, mdadm, cron-apt that sends you emails
> > to your local account or forwarded root account or acts as a
> > relayhost to send you mail to other email accounts (or if you are
> > paranoid does both), otherwise all you need is a mail client or a
> > browser.
>
> On Debian/Devuan there must be some other requirement, like the
> abiltiiy to deliver messages to a mail server. All my attempts to get
> rid of Exim for a lighter mta have failed over the years.

You could try exim4-daemon-light ;-)

> All I've
> ever needed was ye olde mail to forward daemon messages to the
> central mailserver. System offer sepuku on removal and just about
> everything tries to drag it back.

Probably some major systems depend on exim4 to be able to
send mail to root.

apt-cache showpkg exim4-daemon-light

gives some idea.

> Pine was nice in its time but I'm not sure if it would be useful to
> me now. I've used, for a number of Claws-mail to drag in all the
> message from various mailboxes and file/sort them.




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Joel Roth