No MTA on the desktop

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Aug 27 17:18:33 UTC 2009


Colin Walters (walters at verbum.org) said: 
> > That is going to go through FESCo and since it is past feature freeze, I
> > think it makes sense for now to use ssmtp in the desktop kickstart file
> > and drop sendmail.
> 
> Using ssmtp is not the same as "NoMTA", but it seems reasonable as an
> incremental step towards doing so.
> 
> Can someone refresh my memory on what ssmtp will do if a user adds a
> custom cronjob?  ssmtp without a configured host will be /dev/null?

Pretty sure, yes.

Bill




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