On Wednesday 28 September 2005 22:54, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Adam Funk wrote:
> > So you don't run logcheck and don't want output from cron or at jobs?
> > I think that's unusual among Debian users.
>
> No logcheck and on a *desktop* machine know how much I use cron and
> at? Tha answer lies somewhere between -1 and 1 and has no decimal
> place.
Fair enough. I use all three very regularly, and I doubt I'm the only
one.
> > Good point, but that mail is still going to sit there *until* the MTA
> > starts working again. I thought you were arguing against the
> > necessity of having one there at all?
>
> If you read carefully I constantly say "no matter what the
> interface used to connect to it." That's the cluebat sized hint that
> SMTP is an interface which could fail. If one handles failures for
> SMTP, as one must, then one could just as easily handle failures for a
> local MTA.
>
> A basic queue != "MTA functionality". Sorry.
Sooner or later, stuff needs to get out of that queue. That's where MTA
functionality comes in.
