On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:52:27 -0500 Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm pretty solidly of the opinion that email is nowhere near being > > the most sensible way to get important information to a typical > > desktop user. If a failure is important then the user needs to know > > about it as soon as possible - mail provides no guarantees about > > timely delivery. We have plenty of desktop infrastructure to give > > important alerts to users, we're just failing to do so. > > If local delivery of mail fails, there's no reason to think any other > notification method would have succeeded. local mail is rather taxing on a system. If a harddisk is marginal for example... a mail delivery will cause the entire pagecache to be written to the disk, and guess what... the MTA will get stuck on that. And that assumes that the local user even reads "root" email. -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
