MTA in ubuntu deskop

[Taco Witte]

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:55:08 +0100, Thibaut Varene
<faucon.millenium at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:04:41 -0700, LaMont Jones <lamont.jones at ubuntu.com> wrote:
[snip]
> 
> >   lsb           Move to ship seed, document that one needs to install
> >                 lsb to have an LSB compliant system.
> 
> I'll just comment on that issue: is breaking LSB compliance for
> default install a Good Thing (tm)?

I'm concerned about that as well.. Does anybody know why LSB depends
on a MTA anyway?

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:04:41 -0700, LaMont Jones <lamont.jones at ubuntu.com> wrote:
[snip]
> 2) Change anacron, at, and cron to abuse the interactive upgrade hooks
>    (http://www.ubuntu.com/wiki/InteractiveUpgradeHooks) to deliver
>    output to the user if sendmail isn't there or fails to execute.
>    QUESTION: does this want a global config file to tell these fine
>    programs to use the hooks unconditionally, or should they just
>    automatically switch to using the MTA when it arrives?
>    This will happen post-feature-freeze.  If this runs into challenges,
>    modify the programs to warn the user that they won't get output from
>    their command unless they install a mail transport agent.

I think something like this would be the ideal solution for cron
messages and important syslog messages as well. (At this moment, users
don't even see critical syslog messages!) Maybe the same thing could
be applied to cron messages and other logged information: save in
/var/log for further reference and display using update-notifier. My
E0.02.

Kind regards,
Taco