postfix versus sendmail

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:16:59 +0100
Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Just curious why sendmail is still the default on f15?
> >
> > I notice RHEL 6 now defaults to postfix, which is odd since
> > fedora usually leads the way on things like this.
> >
> > Does the person with final decision making power on the
> > default have 15 years invested in getting his sendmail
> > config to work? :-).
> 
> No, not a conspiracy just that everyone has an opinion on it so the
> default has remained.
> 
> I personally believe that there shouldn't be one installed by default
> at all and then the decision is left to the user.
> 
> Some spins already go that route as there's nothing in the default
> desktop that needs a mail server any more.

See also: 

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NoMTA

which I am not sure ever got 100% finished. 

kevin
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