-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Content-ID: El 2008-10-22 a las 16:21 -0400, Anton Aylward escribió: Please, reply on list.

Carlos E. R. said the following on 10/22/2008 03:11 PM:

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Why do you think you don't need it?

I've just converted from Mandriva and I didn't need it there. I didn't need it because I have a mail server on the network. Thunderbird connects to the mail server via IMAP and SMTP, so there is no need for SMTP services on my laptop.

For that use you are correct, you do not need it. But is is not the only use.

Cristian Rodríguez said the following on 10/22/2008 03:19 PM:

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Ruben Safir escribió:

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I want to get rid of postfix and exim

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I do not need a mail server on my latop, but I do need cron.

cron requires smtp_server capability.

I can see how cron might need smtp to deliver mail, but what if cron is not installed?

What for? Cron has to be installed, there are system services that depend on it - at least on an openSUSE system it is needed.

Then again cron might only be delivering locally - this used to be done with mailx - so why is smtp needed.

I suppose it uses the sendmail command to send, not mailx. And I understand that mailx uses the smtp server to send, anyway.

In reality, shouldn't cron deliver its error messages via syslog?

No, it can't, or you might find thousands of syslog entries coming from cron output. Would you prefer that?

I really hate all these dependencies that arise out of lack of consideration of alternatives.

Then perhaps you should design a distro with those premises >:-) - -- Saludos Carlos E.R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkj/nb8ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UHHwCfQZ0Yik34lAAqVybwB/VbUBhP U2EAn3L6YJOy/b0pzawPnxFimbRiEb9n =SFzk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----