Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 02:01:37PM +0100, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:44:16PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> > >> Suggestions welcomed.
> > >
> > > how about not running a full MTA on a laptop/client install... at all?
> > 
> > that would never be changed. So to have a full blown MTA for local
> > delivery is overkill for a vast majority of situations. I filed a bug
> 
> It is true, but more to the point, full blown MTA can do local delivery 
> without being started as daemons. So no MTA should be started in the 
> default case.

With default configuration, only exim can deliver directly. Postfix
and sendmail need a daemon running or a cron job to actually deliver
the mail.

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Miroslav Lichvar