Ubuntu is under attack

[Derek Broughton]

Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:08:34PM -0800, Mike Bird wrote:
> 
>> Why not just send the notification into the regular mail stream
>> which pretty much everyone checks?  It could be root at localhost
>> in the middle of the Sahara, myguru at support.firm for schools
>> and busineses, or me at myisp.com for the techno cogniscenti.  It
>> can be /dev/null for some of the people on this list if that's
>> what they want.
> 
> Becuse the assumption that pretty much everyone checks the regular mail
> stream is inaccurate. In a default install (even pre-Breezy) that mail
> doesn't go anywhere that most users are likely to see it. My girlfriend
> doesn't go around opening terminals in order to check whether any cron
> mail has turned up.

But your girlfriend _does_ go around reading her "girlfriend at gmail.com"
mail, which I think is Mike's point.  If you _insist_ on the MTA, then use
debconf correctly to specify where to send system notifications, then she
would have it sent to her usual email account - NOT local delivery.
-- 
derek