On 08/24/2010 05:47 PM, pbrobinson(a)gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Till Maas
<opensource(a)till.name> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:43:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
>> The problem with delivering this to a user's mailbox via an MTA is that
>> in the typical case it doesn't result in the user noticing anything
>> until they've logged in as root and find out that the "you have new
>> mail" message actually means "Your RAID is fucked" and not just
"Here's
>
> In the typical case users do not use RAID. And how does this change
> with the new not MTA feauture? And in case a RAID is used, how is the
> user notified when the RAID is broken?
How are they notified now? By default the local mta delivers
everything to root because there's no way to know what user is going
to exisit.
I was surprised by this claim. I just tried on a clean F13 install,
and it correctly delivers mail to local users. The "You have mail"
notification works as expected. I haven't done any special
configuration.
Andrew.