On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 20:30 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Jon Masters <jonat...@jonmasters.org> writes: > > > What's the benefit of having no default MTA at all? Is it that Desktop > > users don't care about MTAs being installed? what about those of us who > > care more about server installations than Desktop? > > I have desktops with no MTA. I can read mail on them using remote > pop3/imap (with ssh), sending mail also uses ssh and /usr/sbin/sendmail > on remote machine. Alternatively, SMTP to a smarthost. Plays nicely with > e.g. Emacs/Gnus. > > There is absolutely no need for a local MTA there.
That wasn't the question. The question was what is the benefit of not having one. Is it simply that it saves 1.6MB of disk space? If so, uh, woop? -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
