On 22/02/2020 15.13, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 22/02/2020 14.18, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 22/02/2020 12.42, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 22/02/2020 08.24, Per Jessen wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > >> To be fair, the current usual? environment of a single desktop >> different considerably from a typical? server. If there's a >> desktop, then what the (a?) user typically wants is for the >> desktop to come up and then perhaps ask questions about what do >> you want to do about this missing filesystem or whatever other >> resource is missing. On a server, I might want it to stop and >> bleat "something's wrong", yes. > > Yes, that is a good point - I do tend to think mostly in terms of > servers.
Many linux machines are also used as servers. Linux is really a server operating system, multiuser and multitasking. If I use postfix, that's clearly server software. A plain user simply doesn't make use of all the features.
Maybe a matter of opinion. Postfix is an MTA, every client machine needs one, desktops included. That is why we install it by default.
No, they don't. Thunderbird is typically configured the same way as Windows, which doesn't have an MTA. The client software simply talks directly with the MTA at the ISP.
As I said, it may be a matter of opinion. Personally, I want my cron daemon, smartd, mdadmd, apcupsd (and others like them) to be able to send emails.
Of course, and me too.
Desktop operating systems, say Windows Home, Android, (Macs?) do not need an MTA. Linux does, which makes me say that Linux is a server class operating system.
I was only commenting on your assertion "If I use postfix, that's clearly server software". Even my raspi runs postfix. MacOS is based on Unix, and most probably also has an MTA running. Maybe even postfix. I'll check, my wife has a Macbook.
Yes, postfix is server software :-) -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)