laptop disk access

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 01:47:14PM +1100, Cameron Hutchison wrote:

> To Ubuntu devs: Is postfix a reasonable choice for most desktops? I'd
> have thought a simple forwarding mailer would be better with all mail
> root/postmaster/etc mail setup to forward to the user created upon
> installation, and the forwarding mailer setup to forward to their
> default email account (whatever that is).
>
> I doubt most people are going to be checking mail on their local
> machine.
> 
> Or perhaps a simple local mail daemon that does not forward anywhere,
> setup for purely local delivery.

On both counts, that's exactly how postfix is configured by default in Ubuntu.

> Even if that is how postfix is set up by default, postfix still seems like
> overkill. My machine is now quieter now I've stopped it.

It's just a matter of fixing it not to cause unnecessary disk access.  This
is probably straightforward if someone takes the time.

-- 
 - mdz