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

[Chris Murphy]

On Jan 2, 2014, at 1:32 PM, "Lars E. Pettersson" <lars at homer.se> wrote:

> 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 happy with the way Fedora 20 is behaving now. I see no need to clutter the installer or g-i-s with such questions. If something is really important, the system should put up a banner or alert.


>> 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.

It does. Email was the only notification option 20 years ago. We have other options today.

> 
>> 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.

If they're important, they should go in the journal. 


Chris Murphy