Jesse Keating wrote:
On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 19:29 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
Actually, working by default for things like smartctl is also really
important (I'd like to know if my HD is about to go belly-up, thank
you!), but at least we have the excuse that smartctl never worked nicely
to begin with.
But see, it doesn't "work by default". By default (with sendmail) mail
is just dropped in /var/spool/mail/root.
First, I'm not talking about root's mail. Second, how does local mail
not work? I get 'you have mail' notifications just fine (granted, bash
isn't as obnoxious about it as it could be, i.e. it seems like some days
I don't see a notification, but...). 'mail' is able to read and manage
my spool. What's the problem?
This discussion prior to when I jumped in had given the impression that
local mail would stop working. I've already expressed (numerous times)
why I think that would be a Very Bad Thing.
The user is given no hint, documentation, or otherwise notification
that they may want to configure some email client to subscribe to
this, which is quite difficult as a normal user to subscribed to
/var/spool/mail/root.
True. However, while I agree this is a real problem, it's somewhat
different from (though related to) the problem I'm concerned about.
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