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Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 12, 2013 22:46 UTC (Mon) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now by cas
Parent article: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

"and as i said several times previously, you can't depend on the MUA being configured or working either."

Yup. As a result, email's a poor default for reporting things, and so josh is trying to fix the fact that there are still things in Debian that default to logging via email. As you've demonstrated, it's easy to bridge from syslog to email if you know that your local configuration supports that.


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