Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> but you never give a valid reason why that should be the
> default. Everything I hear comes back to "That is the way I use it,
> so it should be configured that way."
Email would not be useful if someone doesn't accept network connections.
So even if not everyone needs it, clearly some do.
I find the default configuration very reasonable on my laptop. Quite
often I use the laptop in standalone mode with *no* network connection.
System generated e-mails (e.g., logwatch, various cron jobs, etc.) queue
locally on the system with the default sendmail configuration. *nix
systems have relied on having local mail for this purpose for several
decades. Linux is no different.
With this approach I can look at the various e-mails to root using
something like pine or even mail or mailx but I can still retrieve my
user mail when I have an network connection since my mail client is
configured to access my POP/IMAP server. I find this very useful. I
would guess that the majority of Linux laptop users would agree. I
definitely do not want sendmail to accept non-local connections on my
laptop.
Cheers,
Dave
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