Fedora 10 - Boot Analysis

[Peter Robinson]

>> > > how about not running a full MTA on a laptop/client install... at all?
>> >
>> > that would never be changed. So to have a full blown MTA for local
>> > delivery is overkill for a vast majority of situations. I filed a bug
>>
>> It is true, but more to the point, full blown MTA can do local delivery
>> without being started as daemons. So no MTA should be started in the
>> default case.
>
> With default configuration, only exim can deliver directly. Postfix
> and sendmail need a daemon running or a cron job to actually deliver
> the mail.

and exim needs perl and other massives dependencies. is there just a
local delivery agent?

Peter