On 9/1/24 17:15, tito via Dng wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Sep 2024 20:32:32 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
> Kevin Chadwick via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
>> 1 Sept 2024 07:54:53 tito via Dng <dng@???>:
>>
>>> Yes,  I fully agree. The first thing I do when setting up a new box
>>> is to remove the installed MTA (usually exim) and install postfix
>> Postfix is definitely more secure. Does the local system need an MTA or can you just disable Exim without replacing it on an average system with one person using it?
> I think it does need one MTA as long as you setup some monitoring software like smartd, logcheck, mdadm, cron-apt that sends you emails to your local account
> or forwarded root account or acts as a relayhost to send you mail to other email accounts (or if you are paranoid does both), otherwise all you need is a mail client
> or a browser.
>
> Ciao,
> Tito

A good percentage of the default init scripts (daemons) send email to
root@localhost. Therefore, an MTA is required. FYI: I read these with
alpine (pine reinvented) which is a simple text based email client that
is IMO ideal for such a simple task.


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