Ben Stoutenburgh wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Ron Guerin <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > I'm engaging you in a bit of self-education really. If Fedora > switched > back to Sendmail, it's news to me, and kind of horrific news at > that. I > can't speak for the OP, but problems with "postdrop", wherever he saw > this, is a pretty good indicator that he's running Postfix. > > Any chance you specifically asked for Sendmail when you did your > install? > > > I can't think of a version of Fedora that did not have Sendmail > installed by default. It has been a member of the Base package group > forever to be LSB compliant.
If that's true, virtually every other major Linux distro is not LSB compliant, in a way that makes LSB compliance sound like a bad thing. The move away from Sendmail (an act of sanity) was underway a long time ago. Debian and its children have been installing Exim for as long as I can remember. In thinking about this, I may be mixing up Red Hat Linux which switched to Postfix, with Fedora, which... switched back? That truly is a horror, and I can't believe it's taken them so long to see the error of their ways if that's the case. > There is some debate among the developer to remove this, but that > will not change prior to Fedora 15 > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoMTA). > This article says only that they wish to make _an_ MTA optional. That's neither here nor there about which one they install by default. For the record, I'm opposed to the idea. All systems should have a functioning MTA upon installation, because for umpteen hundred years now, everything depends on using it to send administrative messages. - Ron _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Nov 3 - Open Source Hardware: Bugs, Beagles and Beyond Dec 1 - IBM's Open Client Deployment Jan 5 - Building a Comunity Site with Drupal
