--- Em qua, 30/5/12, Mateusz Marzantowicz <mmarzantowicz@xxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > De: Mateusz Marzantowicz <mmarzantowicz@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Assunto: Re: Can I remove sendmail? > Para: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Data: Quarta-feira, 30 de Maio de 2012, 18:14 > sergiocmailbox-fedorausers@xxxxxxxxxxxx: > > Hi, we have the sendmail.service enabled by default > even in the minimal installation. > > I only use Thunderbird as my email client. > > May I uninstall sendmail? Is it needed for something > I'm not aware of? > > > > Regards. > It was already mentioned that sendmail is MTA (may it be > called a mail > server for simplicity). I really don't know why a regular > desktop user > is forced to have such infrastructure installed and > operational out of > the box only to allow some poorly designed programs to pass > messages to > the user. I think it's one of that old UNIX approaches that > need to be > revised and changed to better suite desktop Linux users. > > I think you can disable sendmail service (it is not > installed by default > in Debian) but removing package might break some other > package > dependencies so don't do it. > > > Mateusz Marzantowicz > -- Now that you mention it, Debian installs exim but when I used it IIRC I removed it. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
