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

[Suvayu Ali]

On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 01:11:39PM +0100, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
> On 01/03/2014 12:57 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >It was you who brought in the topic of home servers when this change was
> >done only on the desktop live image.  It is not clear from your reply
> >whether you were already aware of this fact or not.
> 
> Yes, in response to "Yes, all critical notifications are supposed to stay
> persistent.  That is the right model to alert desktop users about anything
> relevant enough to bother them with. Not emails.".
> 
> That (notifications) works on a desktop onto which a user log in, but not on
> a home server, that you do not log in to that often. So that was more a
> general comment directed to the use of notifications, pointing toward the
> fact that mails actually has some merit on some kind of systems.

My home server doubles as my home desktop too.  I use XFCE live images
to do clean installs when I need one.

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Suvayu

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