Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-25 Thread Lars E. Pettersson
On 07/22/2013 08:30 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Well, assuming people use the local machine for reading their mails, and not Thunderbird or so and not GMail and so on, or Zimbra or whatever else people actually read mails with these days... None of these even do local message reading.

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread drago01
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Billy Crook billycr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:18:47AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: Since it _isn't_ served via DHCP in any environment I'm aware of, that's

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 08:30, drago01 a écrit : On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Billy Crook billycr...@gmail.com wrote: Default should include what people 'generally expect of a GNU+Linux system' -- and that includes an MTA. Citation needed. Given that one very distribution with a very big

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday 22 July 2013 20:18:04 Matthew Miller wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:14:32AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: BTW: nobody ever answered how desktop users are supposed to read the output of their cron-jobs (they don't have permissions to read logs). They do have permissions to

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Oron Peled
On Tuesday 23 July 2013 02:34:25 Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 23.07.13 03:14, Oron Peled (o...@actcom.co.il) wrote: BTW: nobody ever answered how desktop users are supposed to read the output of their cron-jobs (they don't have permissions to read logs). Actually, if you'd look

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.07.13 19:33, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: Am 22.07.2013 18:29, schrieb Lennart Poettering: If you want to centralize system configuration, rather then services, then go ahead and do, that, but actually centralize *the configuration*, not the service. In

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Jóhann B. Guðmundsson
On 07/23/2013 10:18 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: As a part of cronie upstream I should probably answer. Cron was patched long time ago to log into syslog if mail can't be send. There is also option for using syslog by default. Should we change cron to be using syslog by default if this

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 23.07.13 04:03, Oron Peled (o...@actcom.co.il) wrote: Cron was already mentioned, but every one seem to ignore the fact that regular users don't have permission to read system logs. journald actually splits out user logs and use filesystem ACLs to ensure that the user gets

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 23.07.13 11:52, Billy Crook (billycr...@gmail.com) wrote: Default should include what people 'generally expect of a GNU+Linux system' -- and that includes an MTA. It should include a syslog, and it should include screen too for that matter. This is the let's do this out of tradition

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 07/24/2013 01:11 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote: On 07/23/2013 10:18 AM, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: As a part of cronie upstream I should probably answer. Cron was patched long time ago to log into syslog if mail can't be send. There is also option for using syslog by default. Should we

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 13:11, Lennart Poettering a écrit : The second part of my mail that you conveniently removed actually explains why that doesn't work: because the SASL auth is inherently per-user configuration but in sendmail you can configure it only globally for the client side.

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 13:39, Lennart Poettering a écrit : This is particularly a bad argument as most Linux distribution installations do not include an MTA anymore (Ubuntu is substantially more popular than Fedora, and not just on the desktop). There's enough reason to believe that the

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/22/2013 05:36 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Also, cronie will split up the messages by line anyway if it logs to syslog instead of sendmail. That sounds particularly horrible for concurrent cron jobs that would thus have their output interleaved in the log. -- Bob Nichols NOSPAM is

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 02:11:18PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 13:11, Lennart Poettering a écrit : The second part of my mail that you conveniently removed actually explains why that doesn't work: because the SASL auth is inherently per-user configuration but in

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Billy Crook
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbys...@in.waw.pl wrote: Here, done, time elapsed: 1 min googling. Great. But does this really solve anything except refuting the most immediate statement by Lennart, taken out of context? 'Context' does not ameliorate a foundation

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 15:58, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek a écrit : On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 02:11:18PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 13:11, Lennart Poettering a écrit : The second part of my mail that you conveniently removed actually explains why that doesn't work:

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Frank Ch. Eigler
Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de writes: [...] essentially boils down to I hate change. Which is an OK opinion to have, but certainly not four Fedora, where the four Fs mean Freedom, Friends, Features, First. The First indicates that we should be pioneers, and *not* the guys who never

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.07.2013 13:11, schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Mon, 22.07.13 19:33, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: Am 22.07.2013 18:29, schrieb Lennart Poettering: If you want to centralize system configuration, rather then services, then go ahead and do, that, but actually centralize

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 24.07.2013 15:58, schrieb Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 02:11:18PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mer 24 juillet 2013 13:11, Lennart Poettering a écrit : The second part of my mail that you conveniently removed actually explains why that doesn't work: because

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Billy Crook
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler f...@redhat.com wrote: It's tempting to carry this argument too far. We can be first with good new ideas; first with experimental stuff; first with additions. We need not be first with bad ideas (and discussions here are a way of figuring out

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Kalev Lember
On 07/15/2013 10:36 AM, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Proposed System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSendmail Change owner(s): Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering net, Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject org No longer install an MTA

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 01:23:08PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: So this issue is still outstanding (but I'll bet you knew that) Also as mentioned on this thread, this doesn't work for cron right now as cron actually collects all log output of a job and then posts it under its own

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Matthew Miller
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 02:09:53PM +0200, Marcela Mašláňová wrote: Should we change cron to be using syslog by default if this feature gets approved? Why? If you don't have MTA, it doesn't try to send email. I won't plan change anything. It might be nice for it to be able to do both. --

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Adam Williamson
On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 11:14 -0500, Billy Crook wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler f...@redhat.com wrote: It's tempting to carry this argument too far. We can be first with good new ideas; first with experimental stuff; first with additions. We need not be first with

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:10:05 -0700 Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: On Wed, 2013-07-24 at 11:14 -0500, Billy Crook wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler f...@redhat.com wrote: It's tempting to carry this argument too far. We can be first with good new

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday 24 July 2013 13:23:08 Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 23.07.13 04:03, Oron Peled (o...@actcom.co.il) wrote: There are two issues however: * The log-splitting of journald is really nice feature. But it doesn't work for cron: $ echo '* * * * * /bin/echo Test

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 03:13:33AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: On Wednesday 24 July 2013 13:23:08 Lennart Poettering wrote: On Tue, 23.07.13 04:03, Oron Peled (o...@actcom.co.il) wrote: There are two issues however: * The log-splitting of journald is really nice feature. But it doesn't

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-24 Thread dan . mashal
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Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Marcela Mašláňová
On 07/15/2013 03:45 PM, Sérgio Basto wrote: On Seg, 2013-07-15 at 10:36 +0200, Jaroslav Reznik wrote: = Proposed System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSendmail Change owner(s): Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering net, Matthew Miller

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 12:25 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote: On Jul 22, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Even running the latest and greatest rawhide nothing desktop-side caught a very basic event like a failing disk! GNOME Disks is supposed to pop up a

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:13:28PM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: I would love to see the day systemd is as polished, ubiquitous, and robust as smtp. But until that happens, nobody is helped by removing MTA from the default install. We're not there yet, and theres no systemd and SMTP are not

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.07.2013 18:29, schrieb Lennart Poettering: If you want to centralize system configuration, rather then services, then go ahead and do, that, but actually centralize *the configuration*, not the service. In particular, because a centralized client-side SMTP service is a really

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 22.07.2013 18:51, schrieb Lennart Poettering: On Fri, 19.07.13 14:47, Frank Ch. Eigler (f...@redhat.com) wrote: And it's just not possible to automatically configure e-mail. [...] As for outgoing SMTP, DHCP packets can identify servers; so can DNS heuristics. I have yet to see my

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 03:13:28PM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: I would love to see the day systemd is as polished, ubiquitous, and robust as smtp. But until that happens, nobody is helped by removing MTA from the default

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Billy Crook billycr...@gmail.com wrote: Sendmail or otherwise, an MTA BELONGS in Default. There is no consensus on that, at all. Very successful competitors to Fedora have removed it, and their users are happy. m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com - ask

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:33:25PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: which could be *easy* solved by ask the users SMTP and credentials at the installation, setup /etc/aliases as default forwarding the messages to this address and configure SASL authentication That really is only useful on a single

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 09:10:00AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: No. You are wrong. When Sendmail is on the chopping block because let's just send anything that should get mailed, to systemd instead, and let it pop up pretty graphical bubbles because nobody reads mail anyways, the two are very

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Fulko Hew
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Billy Crook billycr...@gmail.com wrote: Sendmail or otherwise, an MTA BELONGS in Default. There is no consensus on that, at all. Very successful competitors to Fedora have

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Also, though, please be aware that some individual sat down and installed this system may not always be our main use case. All of these configure it on install suggestions don't help us with the cloud image at all.

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:57:15AM -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: But, personally, I agree with billycr...@gmail.com... On the servers I run, and the server applications I've written, the use of email is mandatory and the use of an MTA is the best, most-efficient way to deal with the email. None of

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:03:16AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: Also, though, please be aware that some individual sat down and installed this system may not always be our main use case. All of these configure it on install suggestions don't help us with the cloud image at all. I see no reason

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Olav Vitters
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:57:15AM -0400, Fulko Hew wrote: But, personally, I agree with billycr...@gmail.com... On the servers I run, and the server applications I've written, the use of email is mandatory and the use of an MTA is the best, most-efficient way to deal with the email. I

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: Since it _isn't_ served via DHCP in any environment I'm aware of, that's not actually useful. Nice to meet you Matt. As of this morning, it is served via DHCP in mine. There's also that guy earlier in the thread.

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 23.07.2013 16:37, schrieb Matthew Miller: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 07:33:25PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: which could be *easy* solved by ask the users SMTP and credentials at the installation, setup /etc/aliases as default forwarding the messages to this address and configure SASL

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:18:47AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: Since it _isn't_ served via DHCP in any environment I'm aware of, that's not actually useful. Nice to meet you Matt. As of this morning, it is served via DHCP in mine. There's also that guy earlier in the thread. So now you know

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 23 juillet 2013 17:05, Matthew Miller a écrit : I say... servers should definitely have a default MTA. We've never had any luck defining what a Fedora server looks like. That's why I think it's better to have servers start from minimal and you can build up in kickstart. There, you

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Billy Crook
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:18:47AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: Since it _isn't_ served via DHCP in any environment I'm aware of, that's not actually useful. Nice to meet you Matt. As of this morning, it is

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:21:45PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Look, the proposal is not calling to replace sendmail, it's calling to remove any MTA. So sendmail is a bad MTA is not a good argument for this No, it's *really* not calling to remove any MTA. It's calling for no MTA to be

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org said: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:21:45PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Look, the proposal is not calling to replace sendmail, it's calling to remove any MTA. So sendmail is a bad MTA is not a good argument for this No, it's *really*

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-23 Thread Adam Williamson
On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 11:52 -0500, Billy Crook wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 10:18:47AM -0500, Billy Crook wrote: Since it _isn't_ served via DHCP in any environment I'm aware of, that's not actually

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 04:09:32PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: the problem i see is when things like MTA and rsyslog are removed from the defualt install many pakcgers will less care about them in the future nor test how

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.07.2013 21:20, schrieb Matthew Miller: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 04:09:32PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: the problem i see is when things like MTA and rsyslog are removed from the defualt install many pakcgers will less care about them in the future nor test how well it works That's a

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Sun, 2013-07-21 at 18:55 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Where is the desktop notification solution in Fedora? There is none able to even remotely approach the capabilities of the cron + MTA bits you so dislike. You're ascribing emotions to a proposal where none exist. No-one said they 'so

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 19.07.13 19:37, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: However, having the /usr/sbin/sendmail API available to applications is valuable - it brings a significant system administration benefit of centralizing the SMTP configuration. Sure it is valuable. However, it's also a pretty bad

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 19.07.13 13:17, Billy Crook (billycr...@gmail.com) wrote: Sendmail stays in Default unless there is compelling reason to switch to postfix, exim, meta1, etc. Those users who wish to remove it are welcome to do so. Nobody is stopping them. The default configuration of sendmail poses

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 19.07.13 20:22, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:37:35PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: However, having the /usr/sbin/sendmail API available to applications is valuable -

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Fri, 19.07.13 14:47, Frank Ch. Eigler (f...@redhat.com) wrote: And it's just not possible to automatically configure e-mail. [...] As for outgoing SMTP, DHCP packets can identify servers; so can DNS heuristics. I have yet to see my first DHCP server in the wild that actually supplies

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Fri, 19.07.13 20:22, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:37:35PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 18:36, Lennart Poettering a écrit : There's nothing special really about cron that would make it so much better suitable for sending out its logs per mail, rather then just log them. What makes cron and smtpd work well together is that they both perform async

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 18:29, Lennart Poettering a écrit : If you want to centralize system configuration, rather then services, then go ahead and do, that, but actually centralize *the configuration*, not the service. In particular, because a centralized client-side SMTP service is a really

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 22.07.13 18:43, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: Application that want to log shoud log. Applications that want to

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.07.13 18:43, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Fri, 19.07.13 20:22, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:16 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@fedoraproject.org wrote:

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sat, 20.07.13 09:00, Robert Nichols (rnicholsnos...@comcast.net) wrote: On 07/15/2013 09:14 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: This feature is about not doign local mail delivery by default, by not installing any MTA. Instead you find the log output of cronjobs at the same place as you find any

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Alexey I. Froloff
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 06:36:41PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: Let's not forget: this is not about removing software from the distro. This is just about removing it from the default install, since the current way it is set up by default it just eats up messages silently, with not

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Miloslav Trmač
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 22.07.13 18:43, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Fri, 19.07.13 20:22, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Alexey I. Froloff
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 06:50:17PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Actually, with the various Fedora MUAs I've used, it ended up being easier to configure them to use local MTA as relay If you are able to configure the MTA of your choice, then you will be able to install that MTA when you need it.

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 06:53:24PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: What makes cron and smtpd work well together is that they both perform async background computing. And many cron messages are not logs they're notifications of an event the cron is polling for, or submission of job results.

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Alexander Boström
mån 2013-07-22 klockan 18:36 +0200 skrev Lennart Poettering: Despite that I am pretty sure that most of the stuff we currently mail (like the log output of cron jobs) simply makes no sense as mail, and should much rather be treated exactly like all other log output. There's nothing special

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 19:09 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 22.07.13 18:43, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote:

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 22, 2013, at 10:25 AM, Adam Williamson awill...@redhat.com wrote: Even running the latest and greatest rawhide nothing desktop-side caught a very basic event like a failing disk! GNOME Disks is supposed to pop up a notification when SMART reports pre-fail status for a disk, I

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sat, 20.07.13 18:05, Lars E. Pettersson (l...@homer.se) wrote: On 07/15/2013 07:54 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote: Well, we don't even install any MUA by default currently that would read local mail spools. Effectively, this means that currently the log output of cronjobs is more or less

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 21.07.13 01:50, Oron Peled (o...@actcom.co.il) wrote: On Friday 19 July 2013 15:46:25 Adam Williamson wrote: ... We don't set up any mail reader to read this mail out of the box. OK, I won't count mailx and mutt because we talk about different audience, should we open bug-reports

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.07.13 18:50, Nicolas Mailhot (nicolas.mail...@laposte.net) wrote: Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 18:29, Lennart Poettering a écrit : If you want to centralize system configuration, rather then services, then go ahead and do, that, but actually centralize *the configuration*, not the

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Sun, 21.07.13 16:09, Reindl Harald (h.rei...@thelounge.net) wrote: Am 21.07.2013 16:05, schrieb Matthew Miller: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 08:58:39AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: it. Yet the something better never materialized. When I had a disk go wrong lately I was notified by the big

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 19:28, Matthew Miller a écrit : On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 06:53:24PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: What makes cron and smtpd work well together is that they both perform async background computing. And many cron messages are not logs they're notifications of an event the

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.07.13 16:04, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Matthew Miller mat...@mattdm.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 04:09:32PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: the problem i see is when things like MTA and rsyslog are removed from the defualt install

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 20:40, Lennart Poettering a écrit : I find it quite amazing that you actually use multiple different MUAs in parallel. I mean, most people stick to one MUA usually, maybe two. But you make it sound as if you need to access your emails through 5 or 10 or so, so that it

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 20:23, Adam Williamson a écrit : Just before this one gets any worse: it was Nicolas Mailhot who started talking about banks sending email for some reason, not Miloslav. Please do not attribute me what I didn't write. I didn't bring banks in the discussion. -- Nicolas

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 20:52, Lennart Poettering a écrit : This is not a valid argument. We cannot keep extending the core all the time by adding more and more redundant components to them, just because we believe this will cause APIs to be tested. No one is asking to extend the core. You

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.07.13 19:19, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Mon, 22.07.13 18:43, Miloslav Trmač (m...@volny.cz) wrote: On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote:

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Adam Williamson
On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 21:10 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Lun 22 juillet 2013 20:23, Adam Williamson a écrit : Just before this one gets any worse: it was Nicolas Mailhot who started talking about banks sending email for some reason, not Miloslav. Please do not attribute me what I

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Billy Crook
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Lennart Poettering mzerq...@0pointer.de wrote: On Fri, 19.07.13 13:17, Billy Crook (billycr...@gmail.com) wrote: Sendmail stays in Default unless there is compelling reason to switch to postfix, exim, meta1, etc. Those users who wish to remove it are welcome

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Robert Nichols
On 07/22/2013 11:36 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: I am pretty sure that most of the stuff we currently mail (like the log output of cron jobs) simply makes no sense as mail, and should much rather be treated exactly like all other log output. There's nothing special really about cron that would

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.07.13 15:26, Robert Nichols (rnicholsnos...@comcast.net) wrote: On 07/22/2013 11:36 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: I am pretty sure that most of the stuff we currently mail (like the log output of cron jobs) simply makes no sense as mail, and should much rather be treated exactly

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:36:19AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: journald is in theory fine with 2^64 bytes per message. In practice (due to the CPU cost of compressing large blobs with XZ while we write it to disk) a few MB should be fine. Also, cronie will split up the messages by line

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Mon, 22.07.13 19:29, Matthew Miller (mat...@fedoraproject.org) wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 12:36:19AM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: journald is in theory fine with 2^64 bytes per message. In practice (due to the CPU cost of compressing large blobs with XZ while we write it to

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Oron Peled
On Monday 22 July 2013 21:00:36 Lennart Poettering wrote: If you argue from the viewpoint of how universially available an API is to make it standard, then I would like to remind you that there are probably more Ubuntu installations in the world thatn Fedora installations, and they haven't

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Matthew Miller
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:14:32AM +0300, Oron Peled wrote: BTW: nobody ever answered how desktop users are supposed to read the output of their cron-jobs (they don't have permissions to read logs). They do have permissions to read journal entries that come from their userid. -- Matthew

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Tue, 23.07.13 03:14, Oron Peled (o...@actcom.co.il) wrote: On Monday 22 July 2013 21:00:36 Lennart Poettering wrote: If you argue from the viewpoint of how universially available an API is to make it standard, then I would like to remind you that there are probably more Ubuntu

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Oron Peled
Hi, On Monday 22 July 2013 20:33:32 Lennart Poettering wrote: On Sun, 21.07.13 01:50, Oron Peled (o...@actcom.co.il) wrote: OK, I won't count mailx and mutt because we talk about different audience, should we open bug-reports for the rest? (kmail? evolution?) Goog luck filing bugs

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-22 Thread Oron Peled
Hi, On Monday 22 July 2013 21:15:14 Lennart Poettering wrote: The point I am trying to make is that if you have something that is vulnerable to a DoS attack you need to have a strategy to handle that. A very simple strategy exists -- alias root's mail to a regular user. I previously said it

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Sam 20 juillet 2013 21:14, Adam Williamson a écrit : I asked for evidence, not hypotheses. All you are currently doing is making an assertion, over and over and over and over again. Pot, kettle I'll add another one: desktop people have complained for years just like you it was a legacy

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-21 Thread drago01
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le Sam 20 juillet 2013 21:14, Adam Williamson a écrit : I asked for evidence, not hypotheses. All you are currently doing is making an assertion, over and over and over and over again. Pot, kettle I'll add

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Dim 21 juillet 2013 09:17, drago01 a écrit : On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le Sam 20 juillet 2013 21:14, Adam Williamson a écrit : I asked for evidence, not hypotheses. All you are currently doing is making an assertion, over and

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 08:58:39AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: it. Yet the something better never materialized. When I had a disk go wrong lately I was notified by the big ugly legacy system. I had *zero* notification by all the better systems that were given as evidence. Because the better

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-21 Thread Matthew Miller
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 11:20:27AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Then make something better. Removing the system you feel is not good enough is not making something better, it's hoping for someone else to scratch your hitch. I don't think this hyperbole is useful to the conversation. First, no

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-21 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 21.07.2013 16:05, schrieb Matthew Miller: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 08:58:39AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: it. Yet the something better never materialized. When I had a disk go wrong lately I was notified by the big ugly legacy system. I had *zero* notification by all the better systems

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-21 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Dim 21 juillet 2013 16:05, Matthew Miller a écrit : On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 08:58:39AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: it. Yet the something better never materialized. When I had a disk go wrong lately I was notified by the big ugly legacy system. I had *zero* notification by all the better

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-21 Thread Steve Clark
On 07/21/2013 03:17 AM, drago01 wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: Le Sam 20 juillet 2013 21:14, Adam Williamson a écrit : I asked for evidence, not hypotheses. All you are currently doing is making an assertion, over and over and over

Re: F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

2013-07-21 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jul 21, 2013, at 10:55 AM, Nicolas Mailhot nicolas.mail...@laposte.net wrote: (state-of-the-art as in, what are Google and Amazon using to notify their users of events? Mail messages! If you're talking about google calendar events, email is used only because even with Chrome the pop-up

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