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Eliminating MTA from Desktop ============================ o Need to make sure any instance of Depends: exim | mail-transport-agent, gets changed to postfix | mail-transfer-agent or dropped completely. o Need to reduce stupid mails for things like dangling symlinks. o Integrate with update-notifier to deliver critical notices. o MTAs to ship seed o Postfix gets its questions back. o Release notes need to clearly say how to install LSB. Maildir by default ================== o mbox or maildir, asked once, share the answer. (/etc/mailbox-format) o Anything that can't do maildir needs to be moved to universe (probably already done) o Maildir lives in ~/.maildir/ (non-standard!!) Spam ==== o Spam filtering of any sort can be provided, but needs constant updates. o Spam filtering should happen on the server, not the client. o clamav can be provided, but needs constant updates. |
Mail Roadmap
Status
Created: Date(2005-04-24T00:21:03Z) by MattZimmermanBR
Priority: LowPriorityBR
People: LaMontJonesLead, JeffBaileySecondBR
Contributors: MattZimmermanBR
Interested: SebastienBacherBR
Status: BrainDump, BreezyGoal, UduBof, DistroSpecificationBR
Packages: BR
Depends: BR
UduSessions: 1(0)BR
Introduction
Establish a strategy for mail handling in Ubuntu
Rationale
Scope and Use Cases
- Remove the MTA from the base system
- Provide spam filtering out of the box
Maildir by default ([http://www.ubuntu.com/wiki/MailStorageStandardisation MailStorageStandardisation])
Delivery into homedir by default ([http://www.ubuntu.com/wiki/MailStorageStandardisation MailStorageStandardisation])
Implementation Plan
Data Preservation and Migration
Packages Affected
User Interface Requirements
Outstanding Issues
UDU BOF Agenda
- What to do about automated mail
- cron
- debconf
- sudo
- ...
- Spam filtering
- Mail storage
UDU Pre-Work
- Prepare list of packages which expect an MTA, for what purpose, and proposed alternative implementations
The beginnings of this can be found in the [http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-February/004207.html discussion] on ubuntu-devel from February. This discusses the packages then in ubuntu-base and ubuntu-desktop. Other main packages that Depend: mail-transport-agent will be changed to prefer postfix instead of exim or exim4.
Suggestions/Notes
- What about replacing the MTA with SSMTP and configure all clients to use that as the standard smtp "gateway"?
- Unfortunately, since this would have ubuntu-base Depend: ssmtp, it causes some of the very problems we're attempting to eliminate.
Eliminating MTA from Desktop ============================
- o Need to make sure any instance of Depends: exim | mail-transport-agent, gets changed to postfix | mail-transfer-agent or dropped completely. o Need to reduce stupid mails for things like dangling symlinks. o Integrate with update-notifier to deliver critical notices. o MTAs to ship seed o Postfix gets its questions back. o Release notes need to clearly say how to install LSB.
Maildir by default ==================
- o mbox or maildir, asked once, share the answer. (/etc/mailbox-format) o Anything that can't do maildir needs to be moved to universe (probably already done) o Maildir lives in ~/.maildir/ (non-standard!!)
Spam ====
- o Spam filtering of any sort can be provided, but needs constant updates. o Spam filtering should happen on the server, not the client. o clamav can be provided, but needs constant updates.
UbuntuDownUnder/BOFs/MailRoadmap (last edited 2008-08-06 16:19:13 by localhost)