some minor Core pruning

Josh Boyer jwboyer at jdub.homelinux.org
Wed Jun 28 12:10:53 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 13:55 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 21:17:19 -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Not in the real world.
> > 
> > Sendmail is the expected norm.
> 
> Norm for what? /usr/sbin/sendmail is there for all major mail servers,
> and it behaves just the same in all cases normal userspace
> programs care about. Hell, the usual "desktop user" case does not
> need a mailserver at all on the local machine, since noone reads
> mail sent to root at localhost.localdomain, anyways.

I do.  Be careful with assumptions and abstractions.  :)

josh




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