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Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 9, 2013 19:30 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now by mathstuf
Parent article: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

But apps can't depend on esmtp being installed.


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Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 9, 2013 19:37 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Well, they can. They can't depend on it being *configured* properly. I don't see a reason that, say KMail, couldn't require esmtp and store SMTP settings in ~/.esmtprc rather than its own configuration file somewhere else.

Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 9, 2013 19:43 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

And if the system has postfix installed as /usr/bin/sendmail?

Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 9, 2013 23:01 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

If you configure esmtp directly, call it directly as well?

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