Sendmail still default?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Sat Oct 18 14:54:59 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 19:07 -0500, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Lutz Lange wrote:
> > i've just wondered why sendmail is still the default MTA in Fedora.
> > Please enlighten me?
> 
> Some people (/me waves) were concerned about the element of surprise 
> when someone configures a new system, throws some (user) cron jobs on 
> it, and expects local mail delivery to Just Work.
> 


sendmail isn't the only mta in fedora that just works out of the box. I
know postfix does and I believe exim does as well.

-sv





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