Mike Cronenworth wrote: > > You're nitpicking unnecessarily. I know fully well that the incoming > port needs to be opening, which is why I stated it as a point against > default sendmail startup. No regular desktop Fedora user will even > thinkg about su'ing, vi'ing, or even consider needing an MTA. They'll > open up Evolution or Thunderbird to send an e-mail. > No really - you said that it requires a lot of work to be able to receive incoming mail. I don't feal that changing one rule in sendmail.mc, recreating sendmail.cf, and checking a checkbox in the firewall GUI a lot of work. > Example: Your User-Agent shows you used Thunderbird to reply to my mail > and it travelled through a route that never included using sendmail. You > arn't even using it yourself. > Nope - I use Postfix, not Sendmail. Besides using it for cron messages, (These get re-routed to my personal account.) I have several cron jobs that send mail over the Internet. I also accept incoming connections from other people on the LAN. I have a POP/IMAP server so we can get e-mail from it. For that matter, I use the Infinity mail server even when I am on the road with my laptop. >> If you have a mail server on your LAN, you can configure Sendmail to >> use it without much trouble. It is also not that hard to configure >> Sendmail to accept incoming connections. All it takes is editing or >> removing one line, and regenerating the config file. Or if you are >> brave, you can edit the config file directly. The change is fairly easy. > > Why would a user who installed using the default Fedora method need to > do this? No one has given me an example. Just the fact that you can do > it, which I already knew. > Well, have the example of the output of cron jobs. The OP does not read them, but they really should be > P.S. Future responders can skip treating me like I just installed > Fedora. You're talking to an individual who has years of Unix > experience. I know what MTAs are for, what uses them, rules of jobs, > etc., etc. Please look at my original question from the standpoint of a > *default* Fedora install. What do sendmail and atd do for a default > Fedora install? In fact, what do they even do for other packages? I am > not asking this for my own benefit, but for the benefit of a regular > Fedora user. If you require their service you will know yourself and > have to configure and startup (chkconfig or whatever suits you) those > services. Don't use the "Just Because" clause. > Remember, we are not just writing responses to you, we are also trying to clarify things for the OP, as well as people searching the archives.. You original post was misleading to a new Linux user. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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