Re: cron-apt with no mta
Rob writes:
> I do the occasional Linux install for fairly clueless folks who own older
> hardware, and I'm not going to subject them to the the headaches and
> overhead of running unnecessary services, especially a mail server.
A server that is not running incurs no overhead. On a home pc the MTA is
not running 99.9% of the time. Even when it does run it uses negligible
resources. It is simple to configure an MTA to forward to an ISP's
smarthost and no administration is requireed.
> I've looked through the scripts included in the reportbug package, but
> I'm not nearly coder enough to make sense of it all to figure out how it
> sends out the report via the ISP's server, that's all I'm looking to do.
It has a built-in MTA.
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John Hasler
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