On Thu, 30 May 2013 13:54:35 +0200 Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 May 2013 12:28:28 +0100, Neil Williams > <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > >What is the benefit of having a local email server installed on every > >system compared to the space it takes up and the fact that it sits > >there unconfigured, doing nothing useful? > > It sits there with a well reasoned default configuration, taking care > of archiving local notifications from a number of subsystems. There are many systems where such notifications will never be generated and besides, why isn't /var/log/ suitable for those? (at least as a fallback?) It's not a huge issue because the kinds of systems I have in mind will use multistrap or debootstrap, not d-i, to do the installation so standard doesn't usually get installed at all. However, these systems work perfectly well without any MTA and the lack of notifications is *not* a valid reason to impose an MTA upon them. There is absolutely no reason why adding Priority: standard to such systems should impose an MTA. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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