---- Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > 1.You run Debian. You need a mail transport agent. Many > scripts are set up to mail information to root. Without a MTA, > this doesn't happen. Out-of-the-box exim4 on Etch will deliver > local mail only.
Not true. If one runs a workstation (like me) there is no real need for exim or other MTA: - workstation user does not and does not need to read root's mail - runnig unconfigured MTA loads the system and is one more security issue. That's why I removed exim off using kpackage (not tasksel) Etch installs without exim if you deselect ALL items. Then "apt-get install" or "aptitude" only packages you need, the rest will be done with dependencies. After all, automatic dependency tracking is one of best features of debian. regards zb
