On 01/03/2014 08:32 PM, Tom H wrote:
On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Lars E. Pettersson lars@homer.se wrote:
Rahul, as long as we have applications that do send mail, we need an MTA to take care of these mails, or else they are totally lost. Or at least let those applications have a requirement of a MTA so that the MTA is installed when those applications are installed on the system.
The point that Chris has made is that these messages were already lost for most users because they didn't actually exist.
That is not relevant.
(A side note, they [the messages] did exist, in /var/spool/mail/root, that the user was not made aware of this was a documentation error)
FESCO has to consider the use-case of the majority of Fedora users and it decided that they don't need an MTA by default.
As long as some application use mail to inform the user an MTA is needed.
And, as has been said many times already, those who want an MTA, _understand_its_purpose_,_and_use_the_features_that_it_provides_ can install one.
That is not the point. The point is that (potentially) important mails are lost. Read the first paragraph starting with Rahul above.
Lars