Re: next Beta

[jfm2 club-internet fr]

Tom Diehl a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> 
> > What was I talking about, again?  Oh! Yeah... cast my vote for scrubbing
> > sendmail and co. from our lovely distro like mildew from the walls of our
> > baths.  If I knew that Red Hat had an official request line, I (and I'm
> > sure many others) would have been all over this a long time ago.  It seems
> > to me that replacing sendmail as the default MTA is the most frequently
> > requested change.  Shouldn't Red Hat's Linux distro reflect the needs of
> > its users?  :)
> 
> File it as an RFE in bugzilla. That is the "Official Request Linw" as you put it.
> OTOH you will NEVER get rid of sendmail completely. It has been in redhat
> since the beginning and there are too many sites that use and like it.
> I would be happy if they just officially supported other MTA's like postfix.
> We shall see.
>

It is highly unfortunate we have to cope with sendmail.  But at the very
least we
should do something for getting out of it.  Like exposing new users to
other
MTAs.  Mandrake has IMHO the right answer here: if you are new to Linux
you get
postfix, if you are not then you are given the choice between sendmail
and postfix
(and since the Mandrake installer is GPL and is leagues ahead of
anaconda RedHat
should take the occasion to "steal back" something from Mandrake).  I
much fear
that if user sees only sendmail what we will get will not be a sendmail
site but
an Exchange site.

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		Jean Francois Martinez

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