On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 20:37 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:15:11PM -0400, Jon Masters wrote: > > > What's the benefit of having no default MTA at all? Is it that Desktop > > users don't care about MTAs being installed? what about those of us who > > care more about server installations than Desktop? > > Given the degree to which sysadmins are religious about MTA choice, I'd > suspect that a large proportion of people who run an MTA on Fedora are > probably already swapping it out with their own preference. I don't > think it's realistic to expect us to provide a product that requires no > further configuration for server admins, so adding "Install an MTA" to > the list of things they have to do is entirely reasonable.
I agree that most admins do swap out the MTA (I always install exim). I just wanted to share that I consider there is some value in providing one by default, even if it is one that won't please everyone. I /think/ I'd rather have to remove sendmail and replace it than have none at all. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
