We need a new subject- bug fixes

[David G. Miller]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

>> > but you never give a valid reason why that should be the
>> > default. Everything I hear comes back to "That is the way I use it,
>> > so it should be configured that way."
>>     
>
> Email would not be useful if someone doesn't accept network connections. 
> So even if not everyone needs it, clearly some do.
>
>   
I find the default configuration very reasonable on my laptop.  Quite 
often I use the laptop in standalone mode with *no* network connection.  
System generated e-mails (e.g., logwatch, various cron jobs, etc.) queue 
locally on the system with the default sendmail configuration.  *nix 
systems have relied on having local mail for this purpose for several 
decades.  Linux is no different.

With this approach I can look at the various e-mails to root using 
something like pine or even mail or mailx but I can still retrieve my 
user mail when I have an network connection since my mail client is 
configured to access my POP/IMAP server.  I find this very useful.  I 
would guess that the majority of Linux laptop users would agree.  I 
definitely do not want sendmail to accept non-local connections on my 
laptop.

Cheers,
Dave

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