please deactivate services by default!

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:35:27 -0400
"Colin Walters" <walters at verbum.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> wrote:
> > Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> said:
> >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> said:
> >> >> The desktop image no longer installs sendmail by default.
> >> >
> >> > What SMTP server is installed now?
> >>
> >> None.
> >
> > So what happens to messages from cron jobs and other standard Unix
> > stuff that expects /bin/mail or /usr/sbin/sendmail to do something
> > useful?
> 
> If there are cron jobs that send mail, we will deactivate them.
> 
> > What about mail clients like (IIRC) mutt that don't have an SMTP
> > client built in?
> 
> You can install sendmail or some other server.

ssmtp seems what various other distros use for "tiny low overhead send
only servers"


> 


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