Hello and thank you to everyone who reported and commented on this
issue.
The package maintainers have chosen to recommend an MTA for a very good
reason. By default, mdadm sends problems to the local user, 'root'. If
you haven't setup an MTA, root is just going to be ignored and problems
will be missed. You are quite welcome to remove postfix, or to ask
synaptic/aptitude/apt-get not to install "Recommends". When mdadm is
installed from the CD during install or upgrade, it does not pull in any
MTA, only when it is manually added later. I know that this is somewhat
confusing, but postfix and other MTA's can be configured very easily
during installation not to listen on any ports or expose your system to
any danger, so its not a security issue either.
I am going to flag this one as Opinion. It seems there are some strong
feelings here and its worth hearing more before closing the bug.
However, I think the current situation is fine and should not be
changed.
** Changed in: mdadm (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: mdadm (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Opinion
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mdadm installs postfix
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