Hello,
Why `postfix´ isn't not included in the Fedora 17 Official DVD? And why `sendmail´ comes now as the default mta agent?
Best regards, Lázaro.
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On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:08:20 -0400 Lázaro Morales wrote:
Why `postfix´ isn't not included in the Fedora 17 Official DVD? And why `sendmail´ comes now as the default mta agent?
Confuses me as well, though as far as I know, sendmail has always been the default in fedora. I do see that redhat have switched to postfix as the default mailer on RHEL6, which makes fedora sticking with sendmail even more confusing.
On 08/29/2012 11:46 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
Confuses me as well, though as far as I know, sendmail has always been the default in fedora. I do see that redhat have switched to postfix as the default mailer on RHEL6, which makes fedora sticking with sendmail even more confusing.
Why? Fedora doesn't follow RedHat; if anything, it's the other way around.
Once upon a time, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com said:
Confuses me as well, though as far as I know, sendmail has always been the default in fedora. I do see that redhat have switched to postfix as the default mailer on RHEL6, which makes fedora sticking with sendmail even more confusing.
RHEL is "downstream" of Fedora, so generally things don't flow from RHEL to Fedora.
The main reason for sendmail still being the default is that it has always been the default, and there's no significant gain in changing it for the vast majority of installs (where the local MTA never gets touched). An effort has been made to not require _any_ MTA in the default install, but I don't know where that stands.
The alternative to no-MTA would be to have a very simple queue-and-forward MTA for locally generated messages (maybe connected to dbus to watch for network changes and such), not a full-features MTA such as sendmail, postfix, exim, etc.