ken wrote:
I have never used a Linux (or any other Unix system, for that matter) without a locally configured mail system -- it is a sure disaster waiting to happen. Therefore I was never in your situation.
So if your organization asks you to set up 2000 workstations, you install 2000 mail servers? They should give you a plaque on the wall.
On every Unix system deployment that I ever designed (and yes, I am responsible for designing the global deployment of 10,000s of Unix engineering workstations in multi-national automotive companies), /usr/lib/sendmail can be used to _send_ email. None of these workstations _accept_ email by SMTP, of course. That deployment is trivial, as all these workstations use the same small MTA configuration. This capability is essential, even more so with a few thousand than with a few workstations, to get all administrative emails from system daemons (cron, lp (e.g., on Solaris), logcheck at the site-specific syslog servers, host intrusion detection systems, and others) to the sysadmin's work environment. To not get them is the situation that I called "sure disaster waiting to happen". And without a working MTA on a workstation, one doesn't get them, since no sysadmin can login at 10,000s of workstations to check root email locally. But, as per your other email, since you continue to think that the correct client-side configuration of sendmail or postfix is "to establish a mail server", I rest my case. All other participants in this thread understood and agreed with me, and I have better things to do with my time than to argue with you. Joachim -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org