Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?

[Andrew Cagney <andrew.cagney%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 11:54, Sad Clouds <cryintothebluesky%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> I've been wondering - why have Postfix in the base system and why have
> it enabled by default?
>
> Most people are not interested in running their own mail server. In
> this case, what is the value of having Postfix just to deliver daily(5)
> reports to /var/mail/root? Seems like an overkill for something that
> syslog can do perfectly well.
>
> Is this just a vestige of 1980s time-sharing systems, when computers
> were expensive and many different users had to coexist on the same
> system?

<aol>Yea, it's 2020</aol>

But why stop at postfix?  There's also cron, inetd, ...
None of these services should have been running on my IoT device.