F20 System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon Jul 22 17:33:25 UTC 2013



Am 22.07.2013 18:29, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> If you want to centralize system configuration, rather then services,
> then go ahead and do, that, but actually centralize *the configuration*,
> not the service. In particular, because a centralized client-side SMTP
> service is a really questionnable thing on today's Internet where SMTP
> delivery connections are almost always authenticated by a *user* id

which could be *easy* solved by ask the users SMTP and credentials
at the installation, setup /etc/aliases as default forwarding the
messages to this address and configure SASL authentication

with postfix these are a few lines of config and the problem
of the "never faced root's inbox" would be solved at all



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