Re: default MTA
2013/5/28 Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>:
> Le mardi 28 mai 2013 à 12:13 +0200, Adam Borowski a écrit :
>> Being able to send outgoing mail, and to handle local (such as SMTP rejects
>> or notifications from system daemons) seems plenty useful to me.
>
> Most clients (apart maybe from mailx) can use an external SMTP server to
> send email.
>
> And on desktop systems, nobody reads local email. We might want to think
> of a better notification system, but email is definitely not fit for
> that anymore.
>
I don't think that is true at all. Personally, I use it to get the
reports from smartd,
from btrfs scrub cron jobs, other cron jobs, the changelogs for updated packages
get mailed there, which I really like (happens only with certain packages).
It certainly makes my life easier.
I imagine a lot of people on a desktop use it, admittedly not everyone.
I do like the proposal to replace the current default MTA with a more
lightweight system for desktops,
but to remove it completely doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
Regards,
Steven
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