Which processes doi Really Need

[William Hooper]

Kevin Fries said:

> Therefore, I wish Linux distros would stop relying on the crutch of
> the local mailer, and start configuring defaults to look for a smtp server
> on the network.  It reflects the modern reality.

Given that the "localdomain" network usually doesn't have a mail server,
looking for one wouldn't help.  And most of the MUAs on linux can easily
read the local mail spool in addition to the remote POP and/or IMAP
server.  I do agree that it would be nice to be able to identify an alias
for root during install and IIRC it was discussed not too long ago on the
-devel list.

If you are using you ISP's mail server then you have the issue of the of
the laptop being on a foreign network.  If you are using a remote mail
address for cron, does it retry when it can't find the SMTP server?

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William Hooper