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Fedora keeps sendmail — for nowFedora keeps sendmail — for nowPosted Aug 2, 2013 1:35 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)In reply to: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now by bloopletech Parent article: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now
If this was just switching sendmail out for some other MTA (exim, postfix, etc) there wouldn't be any significant discussion. Several other Distros have switched to a different MTA by default. All of them include /usr/bin/sendmail as a link that provides something that is equivalent for scripts to use.
The point here is that Lennart is saying that any Distro that's not in the 'stone age' shouldn't have ANY MTA installed at all.
That's the part that's causing people to protest.
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Fedora keeps sendmail — for now Posted Aug 2, 2013 2:12 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
If your software assumes that /usr/bin/sendmail will generate output that will be read by a user, your software is making a false assumption (a huge number of users now only read webmail, to the extent that not all ISPs provide an SMTP smarthost any more). Why provide an interface that's known to be broken?
(To avoid the obvious arguments: yes, there are plenty of cases where you can guarantee that there's an installed MTA that will deliver mail to a user who will read it. But all of those cases involve manual configuration, and so adding "install an MTA" to the list of steps required isn't a huge imposition)
Fedora keeps sendmail — for now Posted Aug 2, 2013 10:48 UTC (Fri) by etienne (subscriber, #25256) [Link]
> But all of those cases involve manual configuration
Isn't it just having a ".forward" file in your home directory?
Fedora keeps sendmail — for now Posted Aug 2, 2013 14:04 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
No, it's also telling sendmail how to deliver mail to the outside world.
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