Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 00:20, Robert MacLean wrote:
> > What is postfix? It keeps telling me it's going to have it run as a
> > server, but what is it/does it do. I'm worried to let it run (cause I
> > don't know what it does), but I'm also worried to not let it run.
>
> If you don't know what it is, then you don't need it. Go to Software
> Manager and uninstall the "postfix" package. You shouldn't be bothered again.
Sridhar (or anyone else),
I have one concern and two questions. As you know, postfix is the MTA
(Mail Transport Agent). IIRC, when I had postfix disabled, I did not
receive the various email messages that Linux may send to root
(warnings, cron job failures, etc.) (well at least as AFAIK, but I may
not have looked). (When logging in at a console, I never received any
of those "You have mail" messages.)
1. Will those messages get delivered to root even if postfix is not
running?
2. If not, are they filling some queue somewhere that one should look
for, review, and periodically empty?
Thanks,
Randy Kramer
