On May 31, 2017 2:38:51 PM EDT, Nicholas D Steeves <nstee...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>Maybe exim should easily provide or default to authenticated smarthost
>(satellite) configuration and /etc/aliases should be configured to
>forward system mail somewhere else (eg: the sysadmin's work email, in
>case of SMART or md errors)?
I believe exim used to ask, via debconf, the user to configure email and that
was one of the options (not sure if the debconf prompts would set up
authentication for you, or if you had to edit one trial format config file as
well). But the priority of those questions was lowered so now by default you're
left without configured email.
That did reduce the number of questions asked for the default install—a
worthwhile goal, I think.
I don't think there is any way to configure mail to go to a non-local sysadmin
email account without asking questions, unfortunately. Some of those questions
are going to be confusing ("what is a smarthost? Sender rewriting?") or
problematic (if you're installing on your primary computer, do you have email
username and password readily available? what if it's Gmail, and you now need
to go set up an app-specific password, or turn on SMTP? Hard to do from the
installer.)
Once you've got the system up, though, dpkg-reconfigure -plow exim4-config
ought to get it set up.
PS: there have been many discussions about changing the default MTA or dumping
it all together on -devel.
