System mail (Fedora 20)

[Frank Murphy]

On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 06:30:22 +0100
lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:

> A system cannot correctly function without a way for such processes
> to send email.

Yes, they can. Cron can work whether you know about it or not
eg. "journalctl | grep cron | less 
# man journalctl if worried

you can always flag on "warning, fail, etc.."

If you have just installed Fedora from F20+
yum install mta (of choice, if required) 

> 
> Has all the software that (potentially) sends email been modified to
> accommodate a crippled system?

How is it crippled, it's still logged?

> 
> What happens when you have an MTA installed?  Will you still not
> receive such email?

That depends if you have it setup to receive or not.

> 
> What happens when you upgrade?  So far, exim still seems to work
> after upgrading.
> 

That's because (MTA) hasn't been obsoleted

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Regards,
Frank 
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