Sendmail still default?
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Sat Oct 18 20:34:37 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 12:03 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> And did anyone have an actual problem with sendmail other than noticing
> it taking time to start the daemon in the boot sequence. That's a
> problem that can be solved on its own since you don't really need a
> daemon then.
>
> Removing mail from the expected services is just the wrong thing to do,
> especially if the reasoning is that the service isn't understood or used
> to advantage. Add a setup for a root alias in firstboot and a mail
> notifier in the gnome panel to make the system more useful instead of less.
>
I never said anything about removing mail. I only said that making
postfix the default doesn't mean losing functionality.
Personally, I'm in favor of changing it just to see what shakes out that
we've forgotten or missed.
-sv
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