On Wed, 15 May 2013 10:56:39 -0400
Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 04:30:35PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> I'd suggest that mdadm should do what cronie already does these
> days: try to use sendmail if it's there and only then, and
> unconditionally log things to syslog. This would the allow us to
> remove an SMTP server from the default install, and everything
> would appear in the logs just fine. And as soon as the admin
> decides to install a mail server and configure it then he will get
> mails too.
I'm in support of this general idea, but I think it's a big enough
change that we should probably do it as a feature -- mdadm is a key
example but probably not the only thing.
Perhaps interested parties could get behind/revive:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoMTA
and finish it out for f20?
kevin