Ubuntu is under attack

[Mike Bird]

On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:50, Derek Broughton wrote:
> Anders Karlsson wrote:
> > Perhaps Ubuntu should look into commissioning a small perl script that
> > handles local delivery to the user set up in the install process? That
> > would require no configuration during the install, and if
> > /usr/bin/sendmail points to /etc/alternatives/sendmail which points to
> > the script, when a full MTA is installed, it can change the
> > /etc/alternatives symlink.
> 
> Except Matthew's saying that we can't trust the Ubuntu user to be able to
> read "local" mail.  And if you do have something that does local delivery
> to any particular user, wouldn't it be just as easy to install one of the
> small MTAs configured for local delivery only?

I think Matthew's issue - which apparently applies to those in the
desert of BT Internet as much as those in the Sahara - can be
addressed by providing a program to which mail can be piped and
which would make a good-faith but not reliable attempt to pop up
the message in a notification bubble.

Delivery to /dev/null, a notification bubble pipeline, local
mail, a smarthost, or an all-singing all-dancing mail server can
all be handled by the same standard mechanism - Postfix or an
equivalent - without breaking LSB compatibility and without
breaking thousands of as yet unimagined applications.

--Mike Bird