Sendmail still default?
seth vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Sat Oct 18 20:57:07 UTC 2008
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 15:50 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.
>
for a couple of years now:
http://advosys.ca/viewpoints/2006/08/postfix-supports-milter/
-sv
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