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

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:58:54 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> Right. So the real issue here isn't there's a missing MTA, but that 
> notification isn't happening. 

Bingo :)

> For a desktop system, an MTA-based setup 
> is actually a pretty poor solution. Without the user setting up a 
> .forward or configuring their mail client to read the local spool, then 
> they won't receive any notification. Integrating this into some sort of 
> notification applet would seem a better idea.

I guess this could be made to inform the "default" sudo user - i.e. the
de-facto "System Administrator"

Peter

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