please deactivate services by default!

Jonathan Underwood jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Thu Sep 25 00:03:31 UTC 2008


2008/9/25 Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr>:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 06:30:50PM -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>
>> Ok, so you still broke cron? I use cron for backups. I care about
>> getting that output delivered. For similar people not reading this list,
>> how are you going to ensure that their jobs still run and their output
>> still gets delivered like they're used to?
>
> if you care about the output being delivered, you should find the mail
> client (which can be a full blown MTA like sendmail, or esmtp/ssmtp) you
> prefer and configure it.
>
> esmtp can do local delivery through a mda, but once again all this
> should be configured by the user.
>

So an alternative to sendmail would be esmtp+procmail for the desktop
spin not wanting an MTA but still wanting local mail delivery, right?




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