drop default MTA for Fedora 15

[Jon Masters]

On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:23 +0100, pbrobinson at gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan at jonmasters.org> wrote:

> > I have an MTA installed because I expect to get emailed logs, and root@
> > does go somewhere. Now, there are a couple of things I should admit:
> >
> > 1). I did replace the out-of-the-box MTA, because it was sendmail. I
> > don't actually care too much about using sendmail, I happened to have
> > configuration files that just work, because the entire mail subsystem
> > wasn't rewritten recently, so I could just copy those files in place.
> >
> > 2). I care more about the "server" experience on this machine than
> > pretty GUI stuff. I know that's no longer the default here :( I also
> > like to think about what I want to base upon Fedora in the future.
> 
> But my point still remains that it doesn't work out of the box and you
> have to do stuff to make it work, so if your in that situation its not
> hard to do "yum install someMTA"

To be clear, I'm in the "but I don't want Fedora to be just a GNOME
desktop" camp. So I see removing the MTA by default as just another step
in the wrong direction. Even if I will replace it with something else. I
know I'm not alone in that particular train of thought.

Jon.