On Wednesday 28 September 2005 22:47, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Marc Haber wrote:
> > Only because it is a M_U_A which needs to have the Postpone function
> > anyway and knows how to handle local persistent mail stores as well.
> > cron, as a fairly small programm, shouldn't have to worry about its
> > mail output.
>
> Cron is one of the ones that should since when something screws up
> with cron people *NEED* to know what happened. Failing to report a
> screw up is a pretty big problem IMHO.
Without an MTA, where will that failure report go? A local logfile is the
only other choice.
