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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