Can I remove sendmail?

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Wed May 30 15:06:45 UTC 2012


On 2012/05/30 07:51, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:

> On 05/30/2012 03:23 PM, sergiocmailbox-fedorausers at yahoo.com.br wrote:
>> ..and I also figured it's required for some basic packages, so I'll
>> just disable its service. Thanks.
>
> I think things should depend on "MTA" or "smtpdaemon" rather than
> sendmail itself. The MTA on Fedora systems is hooked into the
> alternatives infrastructure so even if you install and enable postfix
> or another MTA there is a /usr/sbin/sendmail pointing to an
> appropriate binary that can be called in sendmail's place.
>
> Regards,
> Bryn.

That has been covered, Bryn.

{^_^}


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