please deactivate services by default!

[Matthew Woehlke]

Christoph � wrote:

(What is the symbol in your name supposed to be, incidentally? 
Thunderbird is rendering it as a ? in a diamond.)

> So Joe User, what are you doing with that mail? Is it just dropped
> in /var/spool...? Then you probably only want a /usr/bin/sendmail binary
> that does so. But you do not need an smtp daemon then. If you want that
> mail to be routed over your network (or to other networks) you'll
> probably configure that after a clean install - and notice that you have
> to enable that daemon. 

The original mail stated "The desktop image no longer installs sendmail 
by default."

It seems to me there is a great deal of confusion in this thread as to 
what exactly that means. One interpretation is that this means local 
mail no longer works. This would be a problem.

Another is that I merely lost the ability to use my own box as an SMTP 
first-hop relay for internet-bound mail. This is probably less of a 
problem, since if I hit 'send' in Thunderbird and get back an error that 
localhost did not accept the connection, I will probably notice very 
quickly that I might now need to install a daemon. As long as this 
doesn't affect important things like cron/logwatch/smartctl/etc that 
might have no other way of notifying the user that something is wrong, 
this should be okay.

If someone could clear this up, it would help.

-- 
Matthew
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