Matthew Miller wrote:
On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 10:26:50AM +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> > It can, but most people don't have a good setup for even local mail
> > delivery. Out of the box, we don't really do anything useful.
> It wouldn't take much. Install Postfix, and when Anaconda creates the
> first user account, have it add a mapping from root to that username in
> /etc/aliases. Then a variety of MUAs can pick up the emails from
> /var/spool/mail.
Well but even then the user needs to know to look for local mail. That's not
a normal expecation for even many Linux folks these days.
Unless their MUA does that by default. I'm not sure how many do. I can't
think of any strong reasons to have it disabled.
I once had a problem with local email disappearing on a freshly
installed laptop. It turned out that Seamonkey was picking it up and
moving it to its own mail directory. That was not so good because I was
using Seamonkey only as a browser, not for mail. If it had waited until
I opened Seamonkey Mail before picking up local mail, then I would have
been quite happy about it.
Gmail users would miss it I suppose. There are some disadvantages to
relying on web services for everything.
Björn Persson