F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Ven 19 juillet 2013 20:16, Matthew Miller a écrit :
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 07:37:35PM +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
>> However, having the /usr/sbin/sendmail API available to applications
>> is valuable - it brings a significant system administration benefit of
>> centralizing the SMTP configuration.
>
> What does it mean to "have available"? As discussed earlier, I think it's
> significantly better for applications to get errors (which they can
> handle)

ROTFL. They won't handle anything, they'll just test the "everything is
working" scenario.

Having a standard way to use a real MUA, with actual support for SMTP
intricacies, proofed queuing logic, and single configuration store or
language, is a major reliability and operational boon. Every single time
I've seen an app disdain the local MTA because "it is not available on
non-*nix systems" it ended up badly the first time there was an error to
handle. And I'm quite sure any security audit of their SMTP logic would
have been dreadful.

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Nicolas Mailhot