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Bug 450812 - [TRACKER] Change the default mta
Summary: [TRACKER] Change the default mta
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Net-Mail Packages
URL: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gen...
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Keywords: Tracker
Depends on: 450820 450822
Blocks:
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Reported: 2013-01-08 11:48 UTC by Eray Aslan
Modified: 2013-02-13 09:38 UTC (History)
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Description Eray Aslan gentoo-dev 2013-01-08 11:48:07 UTC 
See $URL for the full discussion:

"""
The current default mta in gentoo - ssmtp - has a more or less dead
upstream and has some outstanding bugs.  It is prudent to change our
default mta.

Both mail-mta/nullmailer and mail-mta/msmtp are lightweight good mtas.
Both packages have active development and provide AUTH and SSL/TLS
support.

Our current mta list is:
        mail-mta/ssmtp
        mail-mta/courier
        rest of the list
        ...

As net-mail herd, we would like to have the following mta list:
        mail-mta/nullmailer
        mail-mta/msmtp
        mail-mta/ssmtp
        rest of the list
        ...
"""

This is a tracker bug for the a/m change.
Comment 1 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev 2013-02-13 09:38:40 UTC 
+*mta-1 (13 Feb 2013)
+
+  13 Feb 2013; Eray Aslan <eras@gentoo.org> +mta-1.ebuild:
+  Change default mta - bug #450812
+