Andreas Girardet wrote:
- postfix mail server not much use for a desktop m/c
Then how will you receive system mail/reports ?
I also always found it highly peculiar that one needs to run a full blown mailserver just to get reports. Removing that dependency of cron and removing postfix seems on a streamlined desktop quite OK to me.
I second that. - For a normal desktop you don't need an MTA. Just drop everything to syslog. - Next step would be simply to have one central configuration of a smarthost (so this setting would be also written automatically to mozilla/kmail/whateverMUA as default SMTP host). Mail from dialin-IPs is anyhow mostly rejected nowadays because of spam. - Only if some admin really wishes to have a fully-blown MTA, this should be installed, but not for a default installation. Ciao Siegbert