Mail Roadmap

Status

• Created: Date(2005-04-24T00:21:03Z) by MattZimmermanBR

• Priority: LowPriorityBR

• People: LaMontJonesLead, SebastienBacherSecondBR

• Contributors: MattZimmermanBR

• Interested: BR

• Status: BrainDump, BreezyGoal, UduBof, DistroSpecificationBR

• Packages: BR

• Depends: BR

• UduSessions: 1, 4, 8, etc 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.