Ubuntu is under attack

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 19:21:49 +0000
Ewan Mac Mahon <ewan at macmahon.me.uk> wrote:

> Why make it independant of email? How does this sound as a best of both
> worlds scenario: Default install has postfix (or other MTA) installed
> for local delivery, just as happened under Hoary. Add a default panel
> applet, similar in look and feel to the update-notifier (call it
> system-notifier, say) that's actually just a speciallized MUA that reads
> the user's local mail spool and removes messages once they've been read.
> That way the new users get the messages without ever realizing that an
> email system is involved, old users get to read their mail with mutt or
> send it somewhere else, and no-one needs to rewrite cron (or anything
> else) to use dbus instead of email.
> 
> That has the side benefit of working for emailed alerts from anything
> the users installs as an extra, as well as for things in the base system
> - just because someone's installed something that depends on an MTA
> doesn't mean that they're going to realise that they need to check
> their local mail.

What? You mean a sensible solution? In this thread?

<gasps and falls off chair>

<grin>

Peter

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