Default MTA for Fedora 7

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Feb 6 18:51:49 UTC 2007


> >>>>> "MM" == Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org> writes:
>
> MM> On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 09:04:58PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
> >> That's because people get flamed to a crisp when they even suggest
> >> sendmail. I still use it on almost all of my servers.
>
> MM> sendmail can do things no other MTA can. Period.
>
> MM> 99.44% of people do not need those things, but the remainder
> MM> _really_ needs them.
>
> Is there really anything useful left which exim can't do? UUCP bang
> paths are the only limitation I can think of off the cuff, and
> hopefully noone uses those. Exim can do UUCP with domain addressing
> though, if anyone still uses UUCP.

Yes, I have a few sites that require it.... but then I also know how
to 'yum install sendmail' too, as I'm sure just about everyone who
uses UUCP does, or else compiles sendmail themsleves.

Peter




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