Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

Having a email message "your hard drive is dying" stored on the very hard drive that is dying is kind of pointless. Yes you could have configured email notification delivery to email box elsewhere, but you might as well have configured nagios.

I find it very telling that nobody has even mentioned mailing other users of the machine as the use case of local sendmail. The boat of local email delivery has sailed and reached it's destination at the harbour of UNIX museum. If the only remaining use of sendmail is to deliver notifications, I don't see why it should be treated different from nagios.