F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Fri Jul 19 22:46:25 UTC 2013


On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 14:23 -0500, Billy Crook wrote:

> > It's not as if the default MTA configuration, as I understand it (no
> smart
> > host, attempt to send all mail directly with the FQDN) is generally
> useful
> > OOTB.
> 
> It is to me, and I suspect I am not alone.

I call bullshit. How is it useful to you? All it can possibly do is
deliver mail to root and users in /var/spool . We don't set up any mail
reader to read this mail out of the box. No app is very likely to know
your user name and send mail to you. The only practical thing you can do
with the OOTB sendmail configuration is manually read or configure an
agent to read the mail in root's /var/spool directory - and that is not
the recommended way to read root's mail _anyway_, the recommended way is
to alias root to a user account.

Sorry, but I am firmly on the 'this is a mechanism from the 1980s' side
of the argument. I run my own mail server, ground up. It makes me feel
all old-school geeky. I am one of a minority of about 0.0001% in the
world these days, and I don't even use sendmail anyway. It's just
ludicrous that we have it in @core. Rip it out, now.
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