Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On 08/24/2010 05:47 PM, 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.

I was surprised by this claim.  I just tried on a clean F13 install,
and it correctly delivers mail to local users.  The "You have mail"
notification works as expected.  I haven't done any special
configuration.

Andrew.
-- 
devel mailing list
devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[Index of Archives]     [Fedora Announce]     [Fedora Kernel]     [Fedora Testing]     [Fedora Formulas]     [Fedora PHP Devel]     [Kernel Development]     [Fedora Legacy]     [Fedora Maintainers]     [Fedora Desktop]     [PAM]     [Red Hat Development]     [Gimp]     [Yosemite News]
  Powered by Linux