Default-installed MTA (was Re: MTA virtual provides craziness)

[Reindl Harald]

Am 20.05.2013 21:30, schrieb Peter Robinson:
>> I suggest not, because in most cases reviewing syslogs requires local
>> root privilege. Alert or warning emails are easily configured with
>> aliases or "MAILTO" settings for cron jobs to go somewhere safer and
>> less security sensitive, even somewhere offsite, with much less work.
> 
> by default all mail messages go to root which you need root
> permissions to access them so it's not really an argument

and on most setups i know /etc/aliases contains
"root: whoever at domain.tld" and the *main* difference
is that you have to search in your logs manually and
mails are coming if whatever event happened directly
to your inbox

if a disk dies it is nice to have it in syslog but
it is useless if you see it days later while a mail
from crond is more or less real time

until you watched the event in the syslog other
people have replaced the drive long ago, where i
work it takes 3-5 hours to get a spare drive

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