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

Lars E. Pettersson lars at homer.se
Thu Jan 2 20:32:00 UTC 2014


On 01/02/2014 09:24 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
> OH but wait, I don't really want more email because I think email in general sucks because of abuse just like this. And on top of it, from my sampling, the messages were useless, so had I been getting them by email, I'd have considered them spam and it would have made me angry that I was receiving them.

Well, then you just skip that question I propose that we ad to the first 
install/setup program. And you will never ever get any mails and will be 
happy ever after.

> I'm glad Fedora caught up with the rest of modern computing and got rid of it by default.

This has nothing to do with modernity at all.

> And guess what! You can still install it and get the behavior you want.

That's not the point. It's about sane defaults so that potential 
important message are not lost.

Lars
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