On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 08:49:23AM +0000, Frank Murphy wrote: > On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 14:17:17 +0100 > Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I know I can always look in the logs, but I would probably miss > > something if I have to do this manually for every daemon that is > > running. It is much simpler to monitor this through system mail. > > > > Hence, I would like to know what happens if there is no MTA > > installed; do I still get system mail notifying me of cron jobs, > > denied hosts, etc? > > MTA is not necessary on a "single" box. > > Can your mua read system mail? > in claws-mail I added an account for system-mail. > so cron, logwatch journalctl etc. come to my inbox\subfolders. > > You should still have the old "mail (mailx)" installed rpm -q mailx
I use mutt, so don't have problems reading system mail. Thank you for confirming, I have removed sendmail now. Cheers, -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
