On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:08:57AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Ruben Safir wrote:
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Its worse than that though. If you remove cron a whole cascade of problems crop up.
In the end I downloaded the rpm and querried the files for postfix and ran a script to just remove them by hand.
It's just unbelievable and I can never tell what Yast will do. It wasn't always like this. You used to have more control up to and including 9.3
AFAIR, you were never able to deselect the MTA - unless you forced it.
It doesn't allow that any more. You "fixed" it.
Every SuSE Desktop host needs a SMTP and the port open? No, obviously they don't.
Ah, yes they do
Oh no they DON'T and if an OS in my enterprise had to has an SMTP server on every desktop I'd had the security detail scrub every damn machine until that OS was gone. I do not need 50,000 possible soures of SPAM. Ruben
and the MTA will only be listening on localhost:25. There are about a million scripts that depend on being able to use sendmail (the mail delivery utility, not the MTA) for notifying root about all kinds of events. Basically you need sendmail, and only the MTA packages provide that. Second, in order for those mails to be processed, you need an MTA which in turn can deliver them to your inbox, which you can subsequently access with TB or mail or telephathy.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
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