F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

[Matthew Miller]

On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 08:58:39AM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> it. Yet the "something better" never materialized. When I had a disk go
> wrong lately I was notified by the big ugly legacy system. I had *zero*
> notification by all the "better" systems that were given as "evidence".
> Because the "better" systems do not exist. None of the 'smtpd is legacy"
> complainers have actually tried to solve the (remote) notification
> problem, none of them actually understand the reliability and operational
> constrains, or that being to define message routing (via aliases,

Sure they do. I can't imagine an installation of any size (eg more than 2
systems) not using Nagios, Icigna, or some other alerting system.

If you're in the narrow case between a desktop system and an installation
where real monitoring and alerting is worth it, install an MTA.

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Matthew Miller  ☁☁☁  Fedora Cloud Architect  ☁☁☁  <mattdm at fedoraproject.org>