drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Till Maas <opensource at till.name> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:43:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>
>> The problem with delivering this to a user's mailbox via an MTA is that
>> in the typical case it doesn't result in the user noticing anything
>> until they've logged in as root and find out that the "you have new
>> mail" message actually means "Your RAID is fucked" and not just "Here's
>
> In the typical case users do not use RAID.  And how does this change
> with the new not MTA feauture? And in case a RAID is used, how is the
> user notified when the RAID is broken?

How are they notified now? By default the local mta delivers
everything to root because there's no way to know what user is going
to exisit. How many people check the local root users mail. So for
desktop it should be a notification to the screen, for a server it
would need to be configured anyway for smart relay hosts and real
users to send it to. So its currently broken as it standard. This
change is not going to make that any better or worse.

Peter