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Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 12, 2013 11:12 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)
In reply to: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now by cas
Parent article: Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

> I have no idea, because I have no idea what you actually did or didn't do.
I described it - I took a stock Ubuntu image, installed it in a VM and tried to send a mail.

What exactly you don't understand?

>any user who finds answering a single question at install-time ("what's your smarthost?")
What IS a smarthost?


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Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 12, 2013 11:35 UTC (Mon) by cas (subscriber, #52554) [Link]

> What IS a smarthost?

what is a mail server? what is a mail relay? how many facetious questions can you ask in the name of pretending ignorance?

Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Posted Aug 12, 2013 11:47 UTC (Mon) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Actually, what is a mailserver? Most people simply don't care - they want their systems work reliably and with minimal setup.

You know, fanboys like you is a major factor that'd been limiting Linux desktop for many years.

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