[tech] Sane mail

[Nick Bannon]

On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:14:10PM +0800, Mark Tearle wrote:
> No, that's dumb.  mooneye is exposed to the world and not the worlds
> most reliable machine in any of it's nine lives.  The disk for the
> mail spool is on morwong, the users are on morwong, Chewbacca's a
> wookie, it just makes sense for mail to delivered on morwong.

No, that's a kneejerk. mooneye is already exposed to the world and
you're still dependent on it to get your mail through in any scenario.
Currently, you're dependent on morwong as well.

FWIW, many (most?) of the users are not on morwong (though I,
personally, am).

The point of the standalone mail server is to simplify the system and
reduce the dependencies. If it works on mooneye it can also work on a
locked down dedicated box with mirrored disks, firewalled to the hilt,
and the server never has to touch an mbox format file again.

Nick.

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