On 01/02/2014 03:39 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
I'm sorry but I do not see the reasoning behind the assumption:
non-technical implies "we need to protect them from good practice".
Perhaps a bad term to use on my part. New Linux user would perhaps be
better. The idea was to make it easier for them to discover problems
with their system. As the MTA has been removed, they will potentially
miss important information.
What does removing an MTA (IOW system mail) serve? If the argument is
saving resources, then one could counter argue a non-technical user is
less likely to care about "saving system resources".
With current day computers an MTA for local delivery is no problem at
all. They have all been locked down for quite a long time (only
accepting mail from 127.0.0.1) so they have no big security risk either.
Lennart Poettring mentioned the following reasons (07/22/2013 06:36 PM,
"Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail")
"since the current way it is set up by default it just eats up messages
silently, with not indication of error and no useful tools installed to
actually get the messages out of it again."
I think, based on other writings, that he means that mail is eaten up by
being delivered to /var/spool/mail/root where the user can not read it.
With no useful tool he means that we have no mail client that can read
spool mail.
Spool mail can be read by mutt, Thunderbird, and probably other mail
clients. What is needed is an easy way to get the mail to a suitable
user. That is where my proposal comes in.
So, in my opinion, removing a local delivery MTA was wrong. It should be
added again, and something in the line of my proposal should be added so
that root mail is sent to a suitable user.
Lars
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