On Sunday 13 July 2003 06:26, Sebastian Kapfer wrote: > > I know, but that location (/var/mail/root) is discouraged, isn't it? The > admin shouldn't read his/her mail under uid 0. That's why I think that > exim should ask this question when it is configured for local delivery (or > in "newbie" mode ;-) > > The best solution (at least for the average user which doesn't care about > his MTA) would IMHO be a question along the lines of "Which user account > should receive messages for the system administrator?" I.e. not even > mentioning the technical details. The word "mail" might be misleading > here. > > Just thinking aloud... I have not installed any exim4 yet, and I know how > to get exim3 to do local delivery. But Debian should become a more > user-friendly OS after all, right? >
The issue here is what Steve Greenland mentioned directly and I alluded to when I started this thread -- many, many desktop users will use external (ISP, work) provided SMTP and POP/IMAP. So that email goes no where useful. Their MTA won't read the local queue. I am a pretty savvy fellow and I don't even use the local MTA except to send mail via reportbug.
