On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 6:04 AM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2(a)infradead.org> wrote:
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.
There has been a bug on this since 2005:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=135592
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