no default mta [was Re: Fedora Present and Future: a Fedora.next 2014 Update (Part I, “Why?”)]

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:27:02AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> If you do need to use sendmail, and your ISP is blocking Port 25,
> it's not that hard to configure things to use a smarthost.  As an
> example, I have my own (vanity) domain and use its mail servers,
> over Port 587.  I also have sendmail configured to use that server
> and port, along with the appropriate username/password.  If anybody
> out there needs to do the same thing, instructions are at
> http://www.zeff.us/SMTPAuth.txt

Absolutely. But since you need to configure it before it's useful, it's
arguably actively harmful to have it running by default. That's all. No one
is removing MTAs from the distro.


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