On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:47 PM, pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx <pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Till Maas <opensource@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:43:36PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> >>> The problem with delivering this to a user's mailbox via an MTA is that >>> in the typical case it doesn't result in the user noticing anything >>> until they've logged in as root and find out that the "you have new >>> mail" message actually means "Your RAID is fucked" and not just "Here's >> >> In the typical case users do not use RAID. And how does this change >> with the new not MTA feauture? And in case a RAID is used, how is the >> user notified when the RAID is broken? > > How are they notified now? By default the local mta delivers > everything to root because there's no way to know what user is going > to exisit. How many people check the local root users mail. So for > desktop it should be a notification to the screen, for a server it > would need to be configured anyway for smart relay hosts and real > users to send it to. So its currently broken as it standard. This > change is not going to make that any better or worse. > Not really related to the original discussion, but perhaps firstboot could be amended to add an alias when the first user is created such that they receive root's mail? > Peter > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
