F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 19:09 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:00 PM, Lennart Poettering
> <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, 22.07.13 18:43, Miloslav Trmač (mitr at volny.cz) wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Lennart Poettering
> >> <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> >> >> Application that want to log shoud log.  Applications that want to
> >> >> send e-mail should send e-mail.  My bank's monthly statement would be
> >> >> rather useless in the bank's splunk archive.
> >> >
> >> > Sure, but your bank web site probably doesn't send its mails out with
> >> > only tools of the default install?
> >>
> >> "What is in the default install" is, as argued elsewhere, also an
> >> implicit documentation of "how things are done".
> >
> > But it is totally bogus to claim that banks would suddenly stop sending
> > you notifcations by email just because Fedora doesn't install sendmail
> > by default. I mean, come on, you are not trying to be honest here, and
> > you know it.
> 
> Sure, if you twist my words into saying something I didn't say...  "I
> mean, come on, you are not trying to be honest here, and you know it."
> 
> The question is _how_ to send the e-mail, not _whether_.

Just before this one gets any worse: it was Nicolas Mailhot who started
talking about banks sending email for some reason, not Miloslav.
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