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From: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] death to mailer-config/mailwrapper
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:38:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071108173819.GC1169@feynman.corp.halliburton.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071103013550.GG22369@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net>

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Robin H. Johnson wrote: [Fri Nov 02 2007, 08:35:50PM CDT]
> It was a good idea, but it just never took off, I think mainly because
> it required too many changes to MTAs, and also did not provide for one
> of the original goals - running two disparate MTAs on the same box.

The mailwrapper program is only intended to allow users to have two MTAs
_installed_ on the same box, not actually have them both running
simultaneously.  It works pretty well for that, but I agree that there
seems to be little real need for it.  I have no objection to it going
away.

-g2boojum-
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Grant Goodyear	
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-11-08 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-03  1:35 [gentoo-dev] death to mailer-config/mailwrapper Robin H. Johnson
2007-11-03  6:03 ` Josh Saddler
2007-11-08 17:38 ` Grant Goodyear [this message]

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