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Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 1, 2013 9:05 UTC (Thu) by tdalman (subscriber, #41971)
In reply to: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now by davecb
Parent article: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

> Hey, no fair! I wrote ssmtp to solve that problem *centuries* ago!

... which is the default sendmail replacement on Gentoo for some time :)

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Posted Aug 1, 2013 11:48 UTC (Thu) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link]

And at least one BSD did so too -- Dragonfly BSD wrote their own local MTA, dma (also ported to many linux distros). OpenBSD too plans to replace sendmail with their own program (opensmtpd). Given sendmail's close links to BSD, it is amusing that Fedora is more conservative than some BSDs in this respect...