Once upon a time, Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> said: > Confuses me as well, though as far as I know, sendmail has always > been the default in fedora. I do see that redhat have switched > to postfix as the default mailer on RHEL6, which makes fedora > sticking with sendmail even more confusing. RHEL is "downstream" of Fedora, so generally things don't flow from RHEL to Fedora. The main reason for sendmail still being the default is that it has always been the default, and there's no significant gain in changing it for the vast majority of installs (where the local MTA never gets touched). An effort has been made to not require _any_ MTA in the default install, but I don't know where that stands. The alternative to no-MTA would be to have a very simple queue-and-forward MTA for locally generated messages (maybe connected to dbus to watch for network changes and such), not a full-features MTA such as sendmail, postfix, exim, etc. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. -- 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
