On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 15:17:29 +0100 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Tuesday 16 November 2004 23:37, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > Not all users have an mta installed. Any solution along these lines > > would need to support at a minimum these options: > > * sending via an mta > > * writing to the system log > > * writing to a particular file > > * displaying all messages post merge > > * discarding messages > > If setting the email address is a prerequisite I don't think this is > an issue. Of course alternative courses of action are nice. In any > case a mta is pretty standard (even if it is ssmtp) as cron needs it > and cron is really really handy for any unix system (For example for > log rotating). Ciaranm is right here for once. Please remember that portage is also used during bootstrap, also several people (including myself) don't want emails from portage. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.