Kevin Fries said: > Therefore, I wish Linux distros would stop relying on the crutch of > the local mailer, and start configuring defaults to look for a smtp server > on the network. It reflects the modern reality. Given that the "localdomain" network usually doesn't have a mail server, looking for one wouldn't help. And most of the MUAs on linux can easily read the local mail spool in addition to the remote POP and/or IMAP server. I do agree that it would be nice to be able to identify an alias for root during install and IIRC it was discussed not too long ago on the -devel list. If you are using you ISP's mail server then you have the issue of the of the laptop being on a foreign network. If you are using a remote mail address for cron, does it retry when it can't find the SMTP server? -- William Hooper
