On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 11:54, Sad Clouds <cryintotheblue...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been wondering - why have Postfix in the base system and why have > it enabled by default? > > Most people are not interested in running their own mail server. In > this case, what is the value of having Postfix just to deliver daily(5) > reports to /var/mail/root? Seems like an overkill for something that > syslog can do perfectly well. > > Is this just a vestige of 1980s time-sharing systems, when computers > were expensive and many different users had to coexist on the same > system?
<aol>Yea, it's 2020</aol> But why stop at postfix? There's also cron, inetd, ... None of these services should have been running on my IoT device.
