On 11 mar 2009, at 18:12, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I understand your perspective, but this is actually by design. The > default Ubuntu Server install opens no ports to the outside world > (which > is also why openssh is an option and not in the standard install). > While I understand the problems associated with this design choice, it > is unlikely to change since no open ports by default is a very long > standing policy (and so no MTA by default). The alternative is to > select the mail server task and you'll get a Postfix you can easily > configure for this use case.
While this is exactly the response I expected from the Ubuntu project, I would just like to point out that it is in no way necessary to even have a network interface enabled, much less any process listening to an external port, in order to enable cron to deliver mail to (for example) the local file /var/mail/root. Since you *do* include Perl and Python in the base system, a very basic /usr/sbin/sendmail could be written in either of those languages to handle that trivial task. Also, if you really truly believe that you cannot have the ability for local mail delivery in the base system, you should at least provide all those daemons relying on such for problem reporting alternate ways of reporting problems. Or, I suppose, not include those either in the base system. In any case, thank you for providing me with a clear and quotable argument for not ever using Ubuntu as a server platform. -- Calle Dybedahl ca...@init.se -*- +46 703 - 970 612 -- Local mail delivery missing in default server install https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/341030 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
