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

[Rick Walker]

> Chris Murphy writes: 
> Now there will be some additional users talking to upstream
> developers to incorporate better means of notification rather
> than depending on emails that obviously aren't being seen by most
> peopel anyway, 

Was there actually a poll taken about who is using mail on their
desktops?  I didn't see one, so I don't know the percentage of MTA
users, but as a long-time technical user, I have always run an MTA and
use it often as a lightweight way to communicate results of jobs such as
backups, SPICE simulations, general cron cleanup scripts and so forth. 

All it takes is to add something like:

    echo "Memory error in cleanup script" | mail staff

Boom.  I get timely notification right where I need it - in the
one place that I check multiple times per day - my inbox.

I guess I'll just add one more thing to my post-install checklist. 

One of the nice things about UNIX is the clean and minimal ethic that it
was born with.  I think that we need to work to keep it as simple as
possible - especially in the core system.  Otherwise it becomes nearly
impossible to learn and less maintainable over time. 

kind regards,
--
Rick Walker