[Fedora-spins] Problem with KDE spin

[David Both]

Sendmail failed to start. Tracking this down led to the /etc/alternatives links 
for mta, mta-mailq, and mta-mailqman pointing to executables for sSMTP instead 
of sendmail. Also, the sendmail unit was disabled and it was enabled poreviously.

The following messages are generated:

May 22 08:16:24 david.both.org systemd[1]: Unit sendmail.service entered failed 
state.
May 22 08:16:24 david.both.org systemd[1]: sendmail.service failed.
May 22 08:17:30 david.both.org sendmail[31389]: -bd is not supported by sSMTP
May 22 08:17:30 david.both.org systemd[1]: Failed to start Sendmail Mail 
Transport Agent.
-- Subject: Unit sendmail.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit sendmail.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
May 22 08:17:30 david.both.org systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Sendmail Mail 
Transport Client.
-- Subject: Unit sm-client.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit sm-client.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is dependency.
May 22 08:17:30 david.both.org systemd[1]: Unit sendmail.service entered failed 
state.
May 22 08:17:30 david.both.org systemd[1]: sendmail.service failed.
May 22 08:19:54 david.both.org sendmail[31448]: -bd is not supported by sSMTP
May 22 08:19:54 david.both.org systemd[1]: Failed to start Sendmail Mail 
Transport Agent.
-- Subject: Unit sendmail.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit sendmail.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
May 22 08:19:54 david.both.org systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Sendmail Mail 
Transport Client.
-- Subject: Unit sm-client.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit sm-client.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is dependency.
May 22 08:19:54 david.both.org systemd[1]: Unit sendmail.service entered failed 
state.
May 22 08:19:54 david.both.org systemd[1]: sendmail.service failed.
May 22 08:21:14 david.both.org sendmail[31490]: -bd is not supported by sSMTP
May 22 08:21:14 david.both.org systemd[1]: Failed to start Sendmail Mail 
Transport Agent.
-- Subject: Unit sendmail.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit sendmail.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is failed.
May 22 08:21:14 david.both.org systemd[1]: Dependency failed for Sendmail Mail 
Transport Client.
-- Subject: Unit sm-client.service has failed
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support:http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
-- 
-- Unit sm-client.service has failed.
-- 
-- The result is dependency.



This is NOT an email server. It is a workstation on which I use sendmail to 
define a smarthost. This enables cron output and other system emails to be sent 
to a central non-root address. Changing the links in the alternatives directory 
to point back to sendmail executables resolved this problem. So it appears that 
the startup command for sSMTP is incorrect.

<rant>
The other problem, in my opinion, is the assumption by the spin developers that 
I want to make that switch. I like sendmail for all of these purposes and have 
no desire to use sSMTP at this time. I would have preferred a notification that 
sSMTP is available as an alternative with instructions on how to make the 
change. It would also have been nice if the change had been tested sufficiently 
to at least not cause problem I encountered.

I would really rather install from the KDE spin, but I cannot if it causes this 
type of issue. And although the spins are not responsible for the crappy new 
very limnited installation options available for Fedora 21, that is the root 
cause of this. I would normally install from a regular installation DVD and 
choose KDE for the desktop. I cannot do that now, I can only install from a live 
image which provides no options to speak of.

Thanks!

</rant>

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