8.04 MTA?

[Rashkae]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Dan Farrell wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:42:47 -0300
>> Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> Robert Holtzman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was unaware that an MTA isn't required for a desktop
>>>> installation. I thought it was neccessary to transfer the mail from
>>>> the server to the MUA, or in my case to Procmail.
>>> Procmail can do that itself.
> 
> I can't believe I said that.  What I was really thinking was that I use
> Fetchmail to get mail, and do deliver it to a local MTA, but could just
> deliver it to Procmail directly.
>> What mail server wouldn't be running POP or IMAP?  The MUA should be
>> able to pull (or view) the mail directly from(on) th server!
> 

Be that as it may, the children these days just have no appreciation for
how we did things back in the day before these fancy new memory sucking
all-in-one GUI apps.  I say, if you want to use a classic unix
environment, you most certainly need an MTA.  Fortunately, installing
postfix (or sendmail, if you're a masochist) is really easy and needs no
configuration to work. (Although, if your box is directly connected to
the Internet, you should configure a firewall as well)