On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 10:53:13AM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:43:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> There's certainly a set of people who want an MTA for this - in a server
> environment it's obviously far more straightforward to get mailed on
> failure, and that's something that you'll probably configure when
This isn't server-only -- it's also the case in an enterprise desktop
environment.
Sorry, yeah - wherever I say "Server" read it as "Machine with a remote
sysadmin".
> The long term fix would arguably be to provide a stub
/usr/sbin/sendmail
> that ties into a more generic event reporting interface, which in turn
> could be configured to send mail elsewhere but would default to popping
> up some sort of desktop notification.
+1. C'mon, prolific desktop code guys. :)
I'll take a look at what would be involved.
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