Reasons for ikeeping an MTA (was Re: Ubuntu is under attack)

[JanC]

On 12/21/05, Aigars Mahinovs <aigarius at debian.org> wrote:
> I would have to agree to this - all *NIX system tools are designed
> with some assumptions about the underlying system in mind.
> Availability of working sendmail binary and that messages sent to
> "root at localhost" will reach the administrator are two such
> assumptions. It is not only cron - tools like tripwire, logcheck,
> apt-listchanges and many others rely on this.
>
> Instead of reimplementing the whole system it would be much more
> effective to just continue the UNIX way: 1. install something like
> nullmailer (or a proper buth light MTA) by default (so that at least
> local mail is delivered), 2. make a way to get messages from
> /var/mail/root to the administrator.
>
> Do not interfere in cron or in the mail delivery process, because any
> administrator of a network will want to (aand will expect to) make
> "root" an alias pointing to his (remote) email and will expect
> everything to just work without any more disturbance to local users.

+1

Configuring this local admin account by default in Evolution would be a plus.

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JanC