make mail go somewhere by default

Jarod Wilson jarod at redhat.com
Wed Oct 1 13:23:06 UTC 2008


On Tuesday 30 September 2008 21:45:17 Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 September 2008 16:26:29 Jarod Wilson wrote:
> >> Les Mikesell wrote:
> >> > Matthew Miller wrote:
> >> >> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:39:26PM -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> >> >>> Which is why we shouldn't be using local delivery for this stuff.
> >> >>> Instead we should ask in firstboot where you'd want the mail
> >> >>> delivered to.
> >> >>
> >> >> Ooh! And do it this way!
> >> >>
> >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=143437
> >> >
> >> > That's a good technique, but wouldn't it follow the system style more
> >> > closely to put install/firstboot setting snippets somewhere under
> >> > /etc/sysconfig with the stock alias file including from there?
> >>
> >> Hm... I wrote a firstboot patch ages ago (almost 3 years ago?) that let
> >> you say "send root mail to this user" when you added a user in
> >> firstboot... Its even in bz somewhere, iirc...
> >
> > Thar she blows:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=135592
>
> Should I consider this a dupe?
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463864
>
> Mine is a bit more broad.

If I'm reading my old patch correctly and your bz, they actually cover pretty 
much the same things, the only difference really was your suggestion that it 
be mandatory or at least strongly suggested to set up forwarding of some sort. 
I left it optional, but did provide means to 1) forward root mail to a user on 
the system and 2) forward mail along to an email account external to the 
system (via a .forward file in the user's home directory). So yeah, I'd say 
dupe it.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at redhat.com




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