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Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 2, 2013 2:12 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now by dlang
Parent article: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

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)


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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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