Le Ven 19 juillet 2013 20:16, Matthew Miller a écrit :
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:37:35PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> However, having the /usr/sbin/sendmail API available to applications
> is valuable - it brings a significant system administration benefit of
> centralizing the SMTP configuration.
What does it mean to "have available"? As discussed earlier, I think it's
significantly better for applications to get errors (which they can
handle)
ROTFL. They won't handle anything, they'll just test the "everything is
working" scenario.
Having a standard way to use a real MUA, with actual support for SMTP
intricacies, proofed queuing logic, and single configuration store or
language, is a major reliability and operational boon. Every single time
I've seen an app disdain the local MTA because "it is not available on
non-*nix systems" it ended up badly the first time there was an error to
handle. And I'm quite sure any security audit of their SMTP logic would
have been dreadful.
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Nicolas Mailhot