Can I remove sendmail?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Wed May 30 15:04:29 UTC 2012


On 2012/05/30 04:58, sergiocmailbox-fedorausers at yahoo.com.br wrote:
> Hi, we have the sendmail.service enabled by default even in the minimal installation.
> I only use Thunderbird as my email client.
> May I uninstall sendmail? Is it needed for something I'm not aware of?
>
> Regards.

Logwatch and other periodic email messages from the system to the root
user (or his designee) will get lost. I embraced this folly years ago
and had to reinstall SOME mail program. I suppose PostFix would do as
well as SendMail.

{^_^}


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