Default MTA for Fedora 7

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Sun Feb 4 04:52:23 UTC 2007


Eric Wood (eric at interplas.com) said: 
> Of course I have a sendmail centric installation, and someone out there 
> probably has a distro wide CVS search for dependencies.  Besides, this 
> simple search may be yeild a few false positives.  Regardless, upstream 
> packages should get more generic on their MTA of choice.  But this 
> proves to me the importance of sendmail of the other MTAs.

/usr/sbin/sendmail is a *standard* unix interface. It's in the LSB,
and it's actually something that can be compiled in. (See
/usr/include/paths.h)

> strings for 'postfix'
...
> gcalctool-5.8.25-1.fc6

Somehow, I doubt this has anything to do with mail. :)

Bill




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