MTA in ubuntu deskop

[Pascal Hakim]

On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 07:04:41PM -0700, LaMont Jones wrote:
> 2) Change anacron, at, and cron to abuse the interactive upgrade hooks
>    (http://www.ubuntu.com/wiki/InteractiveUpgradeHooks) to deliver
>    output to the user if sendmail isn't there or fails to execute.
>    QUESTION: does this want a global config file to tell these fine
>    programs to use the hooks unconditionally, or should they just
>    automatically switch to using the MTA when it arrives?
>    This will happen post-feature-freeze.  If this runs into challenges,
>    modify the programs to warn the user that they won't get output from
>    their command unless they install a mail transport agent.

'lo,

FWIW, the latest upload of anacron to debian (2.3-11) does not depend on an
MTA anymore. It'll use sendmail if present, and won't mail output
otherwise.

Cheers,

Pasc
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