On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:12 PM, Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lots of things use /etc/aliases... > > I think we are drifting off point here. > > 1. If we ship no mta then things would be logged only and people would > have to know to look there. > > 2. If we ship a non local delivery mta (ssmtp/esmtp, etc), then we need > a way to ask the user 'what email address should get root emails from > this machine'. > > 3. If we ship sendmail/postfix/exim we can keep on as we are now, since > they can do local delivery out of the box. However, user needs to login > as root or otherwise check emails for root or configure it to send to > another email address they check or they are basically in the same boat > as log only. However, people already might be expecting this behavior. My point was never ever about /etc/aliases and what uses it, I'm aware that a lot uses it. My point was always that even with a default MTA whether that be sendmail or any of others the standard user currently has to do, and know they have to do, a manual configuration as the root user so as it stands even though we ship a MTA by default it is of no use to identify to the local users of the system that something is wrong with the system without further configuration and as a result we may as well not ship one. Peter -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
