BIND in the base (Was: Re: tmux(1) in base)

[Lowell Gilbert]

Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 05:33:00PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
>> The point of DMA is that it does the absolute minimum needed to get a
>> workable system.  That *minimum* is really just delivering locally
>> generated mail somewhere else, primarily to make sure root's cron
>> e-mails go somewhere.  To actually receive mail, another MTA would
>> always be needed.  
> Does this mean that standalone machine will not work out of the box
> until external email receiver is set up and configured ? In other
> words, out of the box, local mail is lost ?

No, my understanding of the out-of-the-box behaviour is that locally
generated, locally destined mail is delivered locally.  Remotely
destined mail won't work very well unless a smarthost is defined.