From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 27 8:26:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAA837B401 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 08:26:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F3143E3B for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 08:26:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.lan.honeypot.net (mail@pooh.lan.honeypot.net [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g9RGQAPq098475 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 10:26:11 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.lan.honeypot.net with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 185qEs-0001cN-00 for ; Sun, 27 Oct 2002 10:26:10 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting some daemons out of the base system References: <3D9BF56A00005F4C@cpfe1.be.tisc.dk> From: Kirk Strauser Date: 27 Oct 2002 10:26:10 -0600 In-Reply-To: <3D9BF56A00005F4C@cpfe1.be.tisc.dk> Message-ID: <871y6betlp.fsf@pooh.lan.honeypot.net> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-10-26T23:03:38Z, dslb@tiscali.dk writes: > ...and I don't understand why we need a smtp daemon in the base system, > but not a pop3 daemon. One reason is that a standard install expects to have an install MTA so that it can, for example, email periodic reports to the system administrator. Since users can read their mailspools directly (i.e., using 'less'), POP3 isn't strictly necessary. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message