Am 22.07.2013 18:29, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
If you want to centralize system configuration, rather then
services,
then go ahead and do, that, but actually centralize *the configuration*,
not the service. In particular, because a centralized client-side SMTP
service is a really questionnable thing on today's Internet where SMTP
delivery connections are almost always authenticated by a *user* id
which could be *easy* solved by ask the users SMTP and credentials
at the installation, setup /etc/aliases as default forwarding the
messages to this address and configure SASL authentication
with postfix these are a few lines of config and the problem
of the "never faced root's inbox" would be solved at all