No MTA on the desktop

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Mon Aug 31 17:35:49 UTC 2009


On 08/27/2009 10:12 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Rahul
> Sundaram<sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Short proposal:
>>
>> Sendmail is a daemon enabled by default forever and ever but it doesn't
>> make much sense for the desktop and we should remove it for Fedora 12.
>> This will save disk space and reduce startup time.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> That is going to go through FESCo and since it is past feature freeze, I
>> think it makes sense for now to use ssmtp in the desktop kickstart file
>> and drop sendmail.
> 
> Using ssmtp is not the same as "NoMTA", but it seems reasonable as an
> incremental step towards doing so.

So, is anyone opposed to this? Can I do it?

Rahul




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