too many deamons by default - F7 test 2 live cd

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 19 13:11:22 UTC 2007


Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>> Exim should probably replaced with something like esmtp or ssmtp in 
>> the live cd. Folks wanting to install a full blown MTA can install 
>> sendmail, postfix or email on their own.
> As maintainer of ssmtp I would be more then pleased to have it included 
> as default MTA. Unfortunatelly it is close to useless without a real MTA 
> (read: mailhub) around. It cannot be used even by thunderbird who 
> expects to talk SMTP with outgoing server(s) ( the presence of a binary 
> called sendmail is not enough ). I've found ssmtp to be most useful in a 
> farm of computers which can/should send their mails to a central server

Thanks for the information. Is there some kind of simple MTA which would 
   just take of delivering local mail?

Rahul




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