On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 18:09 -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
What more do you want an MTA to do at install? It was decided a
long
time ago that the MTA shouldn't listen for remote SMTP connections by
default. Pretty much any other thing I can think of (such as
delivering root mail to a non-root user or smarthosting, possibly with
authentication setup) requires manual configuration in any case.
... which could perhaps be done in firstboot. It could ask for the email
address to use for outbound mail from 'root', and the SMTP server
details for a smarthost.
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