[Bug 342889] New: Remove Postfix and Sendmail if distro used as a desktop
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342889 Summary: Remove Postfix and Sendmail if distro used as a desktop Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 10.3 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: Basesystem AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: landemaine@gmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- If the user is going to use applications such as Gnome, KDE, then applications like Postfix and Sendmail shouldn't be included as default because they only take resources, which is not a good thing. One could argue that MTAs are used to send mail to users when there are system problems/events but the average user doesn't know when he gets mail and if by chance one day he sees "You got mail" in the terminal, how doesn't know how to read it. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=342889#c1 Mark Gordon <mtgordon@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |mtgordon@novell.com Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |WONTFIX --- Comment #1 from Mark Gordon <mtgordon@novell.com> 2007-11-20 14:20:25 MST --- ..and if a mailing list or an IRC channel or a web search or an O'Reilly book tells average users how, they'll be able to check system mail. Arguably, the average desktop user doesn't know about /var/log/messages, but we're not going to stop shipping syslog-ng. sendmail/postfix can also be used by programs like bug-buddy to email bug reports to bug tracking systems. An MTA is still useful, even on a desktop systems. If you know you don't need it, feel free to uninstall it on your own system, but I don't think we can make that assumption for all desktop users. Resolving WONTFIX. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.
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