Re: I don't need an MTA
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:56 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 01/31/2009 07:28 PM, Aneurin Price wrote:
>>
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>>
>> I'm curious however what it is you have installed that depends on exim, or
>> the
>> mail-transport-agent virtual package. I have no MTA installed on my
>> machine, and
>> no breakages.
>>
>> Would you mind posting the output of 'aptitude why mail-transfer-agent' or
>> 'aptitude why exim', whichever is more enlightening?
>
> How do you get system mail from cron?
>
I don't. I have nothing run by cron whose output I care about even slightly
:P. It's mostly things like updatedb and prelink.
I have one machine with a real MTA configured on it, and a 'proper' mail
config, and I don't believe I've had a single system mail worth reading in
years. This would be different if I were running unattended servers like
apache or postgres, obviously, but I try to keep my main desktop as
lightweight as possible.
Nye
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