Why is sendmail bad?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

man, 28.02.2005 kl. 17.55 skrev Kenneth Porter:
> --On Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:15 PM +0100 Nicolas Mailhot 
> <Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net> wrote:
> 
> > The nice thing about a full-featured MTA with real local queues is your
> > mail will still pass through when your ISP decides to do a big
> > advertising campaign without upgrading its network first.
> 
> I don't question the value of a full-featured MTA for an advanced user. I 
> just don't see it as being a required feature for a new user.
> 
> Presumably the people installing Fedora who can't configure sendmail are 
> either home users (who have a full-featured ISP to operate a real MTA) or 
> business users operating behind a company MTA. AFAIK, Fedora isn't being 
> pushed as an "MTA training platform", so there's no need to keep one in the 
> Core product when it's tight for space. And if it's not tight for space, 
> one could still use a very simple outbound-only queuing MTA for the default 
> and make Postfix/Exim/Sendmail choices for advanced users.
> 
Not having to start a mta at boot would make it boot quicker as well...