On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:52:45AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
FWIW, I'm with Jon and Adam on this one. I just don't see how
not having
an MTA by default is a win, except in disk space terms, and it takes up
a tiny amount of disk space (especially if we pick a lighter-weight one
than sendmail to be the default). I think it makes sense to keep one,
for all the good reasons they cited.
Shipping an MTA by default just gives developers the expectation that if
they pass something to sendmail then it'll be read by a human. Since
that's plainly untrue we should stop doing it and replace it with
something that's actually useful.
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