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

[Les Mikesell]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Alan Cox <alan at redhat.com> wrote:
>> And if we are going to worry about desktop experiences then perhaps making
>> evolution not totally suck, fixing the way the desktop totally disintegrates
>> when you run out of disk space, a working gdm again and a few other items
>> would be far better use of time than macdinking with log delivery.
> 
> I agree there are some dire things broken in the desktop.  The disk
> space one is particularly evil - we should have at least a
> notification nowadays (http://cgwalters.livejournal.com/2008/02/09/).
> 
> However, startup speed is something that impacts nearly everyone and
> is an immediately visible part of the interaction with the computer.
> It makes sense to prioritize fixing it.

You can certainly defer the sendmail daemon startup so you don't have to 
wait for it - and it doesn't need to run at all if you aren't accepting 
inbound messages and nothing is in the queue.

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   Les Mikesell
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