On Sunday, May 10, 2020 5:45:43 AM MST George N. White III wrote: > On Sat, 9 May 2020 at 19:11, John M. Harris Jr <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Saturday, May 9, 2020 2:02:11 PM MST Geoffrey Leach wrote: > > > I noticed that sendmail and mailx are not installed with the basic > > > workstation. Is there another MTA installed? > > > > I hope this is fixed in future Fedora.. This is just silly, though > > definitely > > in line with many of the other changes that have been made to Fedora > > recently. > > 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. Hi, A default MTA doesn't actually deliver anything externally. It just provides local delivery. If this is met by some other function in Fedora, it's fine not to have it, but it otherwise breaks the traditional model, as you can no longer deliver local mail to local users. -- John M. Harris, Jr. Splentity _______________________________________________ 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
