On Wed, 29 May 2013 16:07:18 +0200, Javier Fernandez-Sanguino <j...@debian.org> wrote: >On 28 May 2013 13:05, Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> wrote: >> And on desktop systems, nobody reads local email. We might want to think >> of a better notification system, but email is definitely not fit for >> that anymore. > >On desktop systems nobody reads local email because IIRC the default >email client applications do not present local email to the end-user. >Only when somebody configures, post-installation, is this local e-mail >visible.
So we should provide means so that any newly-installed MUA sees the local mail of the system first. But, alas, people are going to report every single mail in the local mailbox als Spam to their ISP. >I'm not saying that email is a good notification system, but there are >definitely currently many sub-systems that use it (such as cron and >default cron tasks configured through packages). Not presenting this >information to the end-user is actually hiding problems. Yes. And many systems have intermittent connectivity, which rules out non-queueing mini-MTAs. Exim does the Job pretty well, and people who know what an MTA is will probably install their own anyway, so there is no need to change. Greetings Marc -- -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | http://www.zugschlus.de/ Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fon: *49 621 72739834 -- 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/e1uhmpk-0001c3...@swivel.zugschlus.de
