Fedora keeps sendmail — for now

did you ever notice that the internet is a peer to peer network and not a producer to consumer network?

> Also, local delivery to /var/lib/mail is bad for the default system
> because only a few utilities like mailx still can read from there

you must be using some crappy distribution that doesn't have or enforce packaging policy and standards. a decent distribution *requires* all mail-clients that can access local mail stores to access them in the same location...not doing so is a serious bug.

> This isn't to say that /usr/sbin/sendmail isn't an API for scripts and
> programs to send mail, but that is a small case which doesn't _require_
> a full MTA such as sendmail or postfix, a small shim like ssmtp is more
> appropriate, and should be listed as a dependency for programs which
> require it.

thank you for re-iterating my point. it really doesn't matter whether /usr/sbin/sendmail is provided by postfix, exim, sendmail, smail, qmail, ssmtp or some hacked up shell script as long as it reacts correctly to the input and the command-line options.