Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2114 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 24 October 2008 14:51:43 Ruben Safir wrote:
> > Why?  I'm not proposing nor arguing anything new.  Honestly, an openSUSE
> > system _needs_ a sendmail binary in order for millions of scripts to
> > work.  The binary delivers the mail to the local MTA - if there is no
> > local MTA, those emails are never seen.  And that goes for desktops and
> > servers alike.  And for Redhat/Debian/Mandriva/Slackware/etc too.
> > I completely fail to see any security issue in having a postfix MTA
> > listening on localhost:25 on a desktop machine.
>
> Yeah - thats what the firewall is for, right?

No, the firewall doesn't protect the localhost interface. It's not reachable 
from outside the machine anyway.

> What do you think your
> sales person does when cron email them an incomprehensable message they
> can't do anything for?

Are you suggesting system messages to the user registered as the main user 
during installation are a bad thing? The user where you explicitly had to 
check the box "send system emails to this user".

Anyway, you're not complaining about something that suse added to the system, 
you're requesting a complete rewrite of cron. Why not discuss it with the 
author of cron directly?

Or you could open a feature request, and ask that it is implemented

Anders

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