Sendmail still default?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 20:50:15 UTC 2008


seth vidal wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 12:03 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
>> And did anyone have an actual problem with sendmail other than noticing 
>> it taking time to start the daemon in the boot sequence.  That's a 
>> problem that can be solved on its own since you don't really need a 
>> daemon then.
>>
>> Removing mail from the expected services is just the wrong thing to do, 
>> especially if the reasoning is that the service isn't understood or used 
>> to advantage.  Add a setup for a root alias in firstboot and a mail 
>> notifier in the gnome panel to make the system more useful instead of less.
>>
> 
> I never said anything about removing mail. I only said that making
> postfix the default doesn't mean losing functionality.

It would have been earlier, but if in fact the current version is 
capable of running MimeDefang as a milter maybe they are finally equivalent.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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