On Wednesday 28 September 2005 22:54, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
> > So you don't run logcheck and don't want output from cron or at jobs?
> >  I think that's unusual among Debian users.
>
>     No logcheck and on a *desktop* machine know how much I use cron and
> at? Tha answer lies somewhere between -1 and 1 and has no decimal
> place.

Fair enough.  I use all three very regularly, and I doubt I'm the only 
one.

> > Good point, but that mail is still going to sit there *until* the MTA
> > starts working again.  I thought you were arguing against the
> > necessity of having one there at all?
>
>     If you read carefully I constantly say "no matter what the
> interface used to connect to it."  That's the cluebat sized hint that
> SMTP is an interface which could fail.  If one handles failures for
> SMTP, as one must, then one could just as easily handle failures for a
> local MTA.
>
>     A basic queue != "MTA functionality".  Sorry.

Sooner or later, stuff needs to get out of that queue.  That's where MTA 
functionality comes in.

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