please deactivate services by default!

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 09/26/2008 11:56 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
>> Hi.
>>
>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:38:34 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote
>>
>>> Surely the SMTP server isn't absolutely required to be on localhost?
>>> I never send any mail via localhost SMTP, it's all done through my
>>> company's mail servers or the Google ones for personal mail.
>>
>> Unfortunately, sendmail isn't just a program, it's an API. Calling
>> /usr/lib/sendmail has been the way to get mail out (whereever out
>> is) in UNIX for, well, as long as sendmail exists, which is quite some
>> time.
>
> Yes, it seems odd that it bothers someone now when computers are 
> orders of magnitude faster than when this scheme was designed.
>
>> That does not mean that it has to be "the" sendmail, of course.
>>
>> Oh, and LSB requires that it's there.
>
> Postfix is probably the only alternative that has all of the expected 
> functionality, but really the effort should be focused on the only 
> real issue here which is that starting the daemon can cause a visible 
> delay at boot time - and there are several easy fixes for that.
what's wrong with exim (not that I like or recommend it, but it is there 
and it works) ?