Reasons behind defaulting atd and sendmail

[Marc Wilson]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:21:40AM -0500, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Are there any legitimate reasons why the "atd" and "sendmail" services  
> are enabled by default? A "default" install is for a desktop and they are 
> quite useless in that regard.

Maybe they're useless to YOU.

> Sendmail only stores the logwatch output, which actually accumulates  
> after a period of time because no normal desktop user reads the mail.

I read mine.  It sends me the SMART status of the drives, it sends me the
packages I've installed, etc.

BTW... sendmail doesn't *store* anything.  Do you actually know what an MTA
is?

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