LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Posted Sep 23, 2008 10:56 UTC (Tue) by spaetz (guest, #32870)
In reply to: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds by arekkusu
Parent article: LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

>Definitely "sendmail"(...) should be be loaded by default.

Why is that? Some people might want it, but many won't. I know, I don't need it.

fetchmail feature

Posted Sep 23, 2008 13:29 UTC (Tue) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625) [Link]

The Fetchmail POP client used to deliver to the system SMTP daemon by default, so you needed sendmail running before you could check your mail. Now the preferred alternative seems to be either a desktop all-in-one mail program, or OfflineIMAP.

LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Posted Sep 23, 2008 17:03 UTC (Tue) by s0f4r (guest, #52284) [Link] (1 responses)

Don't make 99% of all the users pay for something only you use. Sendmail does really not belong on netbooks and for those who really want to have it there: you can still start it manually. No netbook vendor should ship sendmail enabled by default.

LPC: Booting Linux in five seconds

Posted Sep 24, 2008 7:26 UTC (Wed) by ttonino (guest, #4073) [Link]

No server vendor should enable Sendmail as daemon by default either. Accepting mail on port 25 is uncommon. Sending out mail isn't, but it is done on demand with Sendmail from the command line. What cannot be sent can be pushed out with a cron job that does a sendmail -q every now and then.