Am Dienstag, den 03.01.2006, 23:35 -0800 schrieb Jesse Keating: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 23:24 -0800, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > > > My belief is that there are too many users who don't, and making it > > easy for them to shoot themselves in the foot would lead to more > > trouble than its worth. But for giggles, since I'm in the process of > > trying to teach myself python, perhaps I'll try to put something > > together that does give users the choice... > > Why not both? When creating a user, have a checkbox to 'deliver root's > email to this user', then also have a input dialog that says 'forward > this user's email to "______" address'. This way multiple users can be > listed in the root alias, and each user can have their local mail > delivered elsewhere if desired. > > Just my $0.02 I really like the idea. BTW, the bug report #176767 that was opened during this discussion to get this fixed in the future was closed as a dupe of #135592. There one reads: > The bigger question here is why root is receiving mail in the first place. Side note: At least logwatch (daily) and sudo (in case someone tried something that is not allowed) send mails to root. The first one even is active in a default install iirc. And this is quite annoying sometimes: At my workplace the local MTA after a fresh install figures out the MX of the domain automatically and send the mails to root@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- that's quite annoying because that is somebody else that is getting upset about all these mails from systems he doesn't know anything about... > Most > people aren't going to check this even if they are aware it exists. We should > be working on a better way to inform people about what's going on with the > system instead of relying on local mail I disagree. Yes, for desktop-systems there are probably better ways to inform people. But mail is also okay IMHO. And I can't think of a better way for servers to inform the admin about problems... -- Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
