Can I remove sendmail?

sergiocmailbox-fedorausers at yahoo.com.br sergiocmailbox-fedorausers at yahoo.com.br
Wed May 30 20:55:41 UTC 2012



--- Em qua, 30/5/12, jdow <jdow at earthlink.net> escreveu:

> De: jdow <jdow at earthlink.net>
> Assunto: Re: Can I remove sendmail?
> Para: sergiocmailbox-fedorausers at yahoo.com.br, "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Data: Quarta-feira, 30 de Maio de 2012, 12:04
> On 2012/05/30 04:58, sergiocmailbox-fedorausers at yahoo.com.br
> wrote:
> > Hi, we have the sendmail.service enabled by default
> even in the minimal installation.
> > I only use Thunderbird as my email client.
> > May I uninstall sendmail? Is it needed for something
> I'm not aware of?
> >
> > Regards.
> 
> Logwatch and other periodic email messages from the system
> to the root
> user (or his designee) will get lost. I embraced this folly
> years ago
> and had to reinstall SOME mail program. I suppose PostFix
> would do as
> well as SendMail.
> 
> {^_^}
> 

Oh yes, that's what I had in the back of my mind when I asked the question.
So back to enable it again.


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