please deactivate services by default!

[Matthew Woehlke]

Colin Walters wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>> Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> said:
>>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>>>> Once upon a time, Colin Walters <walters at verbum.org> said:
>>>>> The desktop image no longer installs sendmail by default.
>>>> What SMTP server is installed now?
>>> None.
>> So what happens to messages from cron jobs and other standard Unix stuff
>> that expects /bin/mail or /usr/sbin/sendmail to do something useful?
> 
> If there are cron jobs that send mail, we will deactivate them.

So... you just broke cron? I use rsync for nightly backup. It makes 
noise. Ergo, I get mail. Are you saying my *nightly backup* suddenly 
won't work? Or at best, I will have no way of knowing if any errors 
occurred?

I really hope I'm missing something...

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