On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:45:19 +0000 (GMT), Philip Hazel
<ph10@???> wrote:
>On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Marc Haber wrote:
>> That's a non-option for almost all Linux installations since local
>> processes might need to send e-mail.
>
>Although I run an MTA on my desktop at work (where I develop Exim, so it
>would be kind of silly not to :), I do not do so on my desktop machine
>at home, or on my laptop. I don't seem to have missed anything by this
>behaviour.
That might be caused by the fact that you use a MUA that - IIRC - has
rudimentary offline capabilities by itself which is not the case for a
lot of other UNIX software.
otoh, IIRC, you are not using a GNU system.
Greetings
Marc
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