On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 12:50:48PM +0200, Thomas Woerner wrote:
What about this (maybe silly) idea:
The default desktop installation is not providing a mta like sendmail, postfix or exim. A tiny local program is using syslog to collect local emails in a file in /var/log in mailbox format. This way emails e.g. from cron or mdadm are not lost and a local email reader could be used to read the emails. Additionally logrotate would help to keep the amount of emails at an acceptable level. SELinux shouldn't be a problem for this solution.
Your tiny local program is not going to stay tiny long. Feature creep (multiple log files, routing, filtering, locking...) is going to make it equivalent to a mail delivery agent. So just use one.
OG.