None of the Above (was Re: Sendmail still default?)

Phil Knirsch pknirsch at redhat.com
Mon Oct 20 15:34:06 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Chris Adams wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at infradead.org> said:
>>> most users on the client side use a mail client that has its own
>>> queuing.
>>
>> Most _interactive_ users do.  Most automated tasks (e.g. cron) do not
>> have any queueing.
> 
> Even if you are trying to dumb the system down to a Mac's 
> pseudo-single-user style, you still need crontab and mail to work - as 
> it does on a Mac.
> 

What happens to emails generated on a Max OSX via crontab or any other 
automated system? Does it run sendmail or some equivalent of it?

Just curious how they solve it as on a Mac i'd bet you that hardly any 
typical user will know what root is.

Regards, Phil

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