F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Jan 2 13:03:37 UTC 2014


On 01/02/2014 04:13 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2014 20:40:35 -0700
> Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
> ctly how they get it during installation itself.
>> Why put a feature in the GUI installer to add a user to /etc/aliases
>> for getting system mail messages when there isn't an MTA? Since the
>> MTA will need to be installed, edit /etc/aliases at that time? This
>> seems to add complexity for minimal value.
>>
> You don't need an mta to get system mail ;)
> Then I like experimenting.

Which I agree about.  We should focus on geting local delivery working 
and the standard email client reading it.



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