On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:23 +0100, pbrobinson(a)gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Jon Masters
<jonathan(a)jonmasters.org> wrote:
> I have an MTA installed because I expect to get emailed logs,
and root@
> does go somewhere. Now, there are a couple of things I should admit:
>
> 1). I did replace the out-of-the-box MTA, because it was sendmail. I
> don't actually care too much about using sendmail, I happened to have
> configuration files that just work, because the entire mail subsystem
> wasn't rewritten recently, so I could just copy those files in place.
>
> 2). I care more about the "server" experience on this machine than
> pretty GUI stuff. I know that's no longer the default here :( I also
> like to think about what I want to base upon Fedora in the future.
But my point still remains that it doesn't work out of the box and you
have to do stuff to make it work, so if your in that situation its not
hard to do "yum install someMTA"
To be clear, I'm in the "but I don't want Fedora to be just a GNOME
desktop" camp. So I see removing the MTA by default as just another step
in the wrong direction. Even if I will replace it with something else. I
know I'm not alone in that particular train of thought.
Jon.