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

[Olivier Galibert]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:50:48PM +0200, Thomas Woerner wrote:
> What about this (maybe silly) idea:
> 
> The default desktop installation is not providing a mta like sendmail, 
> postfix or exim. A tiny local program is using syslog to collect local 
> emails in a file in /var/log in mailbox format. This way emails e.g. 
> from cron or mdadm are not lost and a local email reader could be used 
> to read the emails. Additionally logrotate would help to keep the amount 
> of emails at an acceptable level. SELinux shouldn't be a problem for 
> this solution.

Your tiny local program is not going to stay tiny long.  Feature creep
(multiple log files, routing, filtering, locking...) is going to make
it equivalent to a mail delivery agent.  So just use one.

  OG.