On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Togan Muftuoglu <toganm@opensuse.org> wrote:
Why not use d-bus system or notify or wall or whatever but default install should be with no MTA in my opinion. Someone doing click click install can/should be able to live without the admin messages, since they can do without syslog as well
Whatever method it should be the same for all installations (server or desktop), and configurable for both needs. I don't think wall is all that nice though. Especially if there's no logged user. I think though a simple MTA is still the correct tool. Messages usually sent with sendmail are notifications that have to be delivered at a later time to certain users. They may or may not be logged, so it really needs to be store-and-forward. If you'd like to cripple it so that it cannot communicate with the outside, ok, but sendmail/exim both support local and remote mails. It's not that average desktop users can live without an MTA. It's that they wouldn't miss it, because it's never functioned properly without intervention. If it came properly configured from the start, users would appreciate it. Important system notifications like "your hard disk is dying" for instance go through sendmail in addition to syslog, because they shouldn't go unnoticed. In fact, IMO, It's of special service to average desktop users. Put a local SMTP MTA like postfix or qmail (configured for local-only operation), and make sure to set up the sendmail command to relay through it, and desktops to monitor it through POP, and you've got yourself functional notification system that can rather easily be configured to use internet mail (just make postfix/qmail relay to whatever SMTP you use), and used by SMTP libraries (localhost:25). It may have security implications though. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org