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

[Lars E. Pettersson]

On 01/02/2014 07:52 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> On Jan 2, 2014, at 5:34 AM, Lars E. Pettersson <lars at homer.se> wrote:
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>> Important mail to/from root is not an "edge case".
>
> So important that by default root isn't informed of these messages?

Huh?

> With sendmail I was not informed of any such messages when logging in as root. Without sendmail, there's been no change in behavior at all. So what am I missing, exactly? How am I missing it?

Log in as root, write mail, press enter, there you go.

How you miss it?

With an MTA mail is delivered to root until you change /etc/aliases. To 
read roots mail you have to login as root and run a mail client. With a 
change of the aliases file you can chose to deliver root mail to a user, 
on the current system, another system, or a combination of these. The 
mail is read using a mail client.

Without an MTA these mails are totally lost, they do not appear in 
/var/spool/mail/root, nor any other user, they are never deliver, and 
thereby lost.

Lars
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