On Sun, 10 May 2020 12:53:12 -0300 "George N. White III" <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 12:00, Jonathan Billings <billings@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > On May 10, 2020, at 08:47, George N. White III <gnwiii@xxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > > Linux development today is mostly funded by big businesses and > > governments. > > > Large enterprises have tight controls over email for security, > > > legal, > > and business > > > continuity reasons. Those controls could break down if MTA's are > > > > > installed by > > > default without explicit action by administrators. One > > > consequence is > > a move > > > away from using email for status reports (cron, logwatch) towards > > > job > > management > > > tools that provide resource management and scheduling as well as > > > logging > > and > > > status reporting. > > > > > > Maybe Fedora will need small business and hobbyist spins. > > > > I think it’s more likely that email is one of the biggest vectors > > of spam and malware and it’s unmaintained MTAs that end up being > > used to generate a lot of bogus email. On top of that, a lot of > > ISPs are blocking outbound port 25 so MTAs in a default > > configuration can’t deliver mail off the host anymore anyway. > > > Those issues have been around for many years. The removal of MTA's > from linux distros is relatively recent, and came after climate-gate > and DNC email fiascos raised the profile of email at high levels of > enterprise management. > Fedora disto organization should not be guided by the shortcomings of server managers, let alone managers of Windows-based servers. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
