drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[Andrew Haley]

On 08/24/2010 05:47 PM, 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.

I was surprised by this claim.  I just tried on a clean F13 install,
and it correctly delivers mail to local users.  The "You have mail"
notification works as expected.  I haven't done any special
configuration.

Andrew.