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

[Lars E. Pettersson]

On 01/03/2014 08:32 PM, Tom H wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Lars E. Pettersson <lars at homer.se> wrote:
>> Rahul, as long as we have applications that do send mail, we need an MTA to
>> take care of these mails, or else they are totally lost. Or at least let
>> those applications have a requirement of a MTA so that the MTA is installed
>> when those applications are installed on the system.

> The point that Chris has made is that these messages were already lost
> for most users because they didn't actually exist.

That is not relevant.

(A side note, they [the messages] did exist, in /var/spool/mail/root, 
that the user was not made aware of this was a documentation error)

> FESCO has to consider the use-case of the majority of Fedora users and
> it decided that they don't need an MTA by default.

As long as some application use mail to inform the user an MTA is needed.

> And, as has been said many times already, those who want an MTA,
> _understand_its_purpose_,_and_use_the_features_that_it_provides_ can
> install one.

That is not the point. The point is that (potentially) important mails 
are lost. Read the first paragraph starting with Rahul above.

Lars
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