Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: > This is not about outside mail, it's about local mail that originates > from the system itself, cron jobs and so on.
> And I seriously hope no one proposes to remove cron. I think it's pretty obvious that we need some way of notifying people about cron errors other than email. Not only are there lots of problems with figuring out how to get email to the local user of the box, but increasingly new computer users aren't using email at all, or at least very intermittantly, and are instead using other things (IM, social media, etc.). Email just isn't necessarily the center of the electronic communications world the way that it used to be. In a desktop world, I'd rather see some way that cron errors can be viewed by a local account with appropriate permissions, combined with some sort of notification scheme that's integral to the desktop rather than based on the assumption that everyone reads mail. (In a server world, of course, email continues to be a good mechanism for reporting.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87vcrpu91a....@windlord.stanford.edu
