drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[Adam Huffman]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:47 PM, pbrobinson at gmail.com
<pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Not really related to the original discussion, but perhaps firstboot
could be amended to add an alias when the first user is created such
that they receive root's mail?



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