On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:41 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:52:45AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> FWIW, I'm with Jon and Adam on this one. I just don't see how not having
> an MTA by default is a win, except in disk space terms, and it takes up
> a tiny amount of disk space (especially if we pick a lighter-weight one
> than sendmail to be the default). I think it makes sense to keep one,
> for all the good reasons they cited.
Shipping an MTA by default just gives developers the expectation that if
they pass something to sendmail then it'll be read by a human. Since
that's plainly untrue we should stop doing it and replace it with
something that's actually useful.
I'm not really in the giving-a-crap camp for the MTA or not but:
that seems like a bit of odd logic. The logs are emitted to syslog with
the same thought in mind - that someone will read them - but that is
also not necessarily true. But I would not want to see us discarding
syslog, either.
-sv