man, 28.02.2005 kl. 17.55 skrev Kenneth Porter:
--On Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:15 PM +0100 Nicolas Mailhot
<Nicolas.Mailhot(a)laPoste.net> wrote:
> The nice thing about a full-featured MTA with real local queues is your
> mail will still pass through when your ISP decides to do a big
> advertising campaign without upgrading its network first.
I don't question the value of a full-featured MTA for an advanced user. I
just don't see it as being a required feature for a new user.
Presumably the people installing Fedora who can't configure sendmail are
either home users (who have a full-featured ISP to operate a real MTA) or
business users operating behind a company MTA. AFAIK, Fedora isn't being
pushed as an "MTA training platform", so there's no need to keep one in the
Core product when it's tight for space. And if it's not tight for space,
one could still use a very simple outbound-only queuing MTA for the default
and make Postfix/Exim/Sendmail choices for advanced users.
Not having to start a mta at boot would make it boot quicker as well...