F20 - Unintended consequences of no default MTA - How best to fix

[Mark C. Allman]

On Thu, 2014-01-02 at 13:40 -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 11:30:53 -0700
> Chris Murphy wrote:
> 
> > There is no deficiency in omitting the installation of something that does nothing by default. To gain functionality from sendmail required the user configure it. 
> 
> Nonsense, both sendmail and postfix make most mail delivery
> work as expected with no configuration required. At work, for
> instance, when we install a new system and don't touch anything
> in sendmail, you can still run mailx on that system to send mail
> to anyone else on the local LAN and it "just works".

Yea, for the most part sendmail has "just worked" for me.  I had to do
some custom stuff recently but that's because I changed my network
around.

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Mark C. Allman, PMP, CSM