Re: drop default MTA for Fedora 15

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On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:52:45AM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:

> FWIW, I'm with Jon and Adam on this one. I just don't see how not having
> an MTA by default is a win, except in disk space terms, and it takes up
> a tiny amount of disk space (especially if we pick a lighter-weight one
> than sendmail to be the default). I think it makes sense to keep one,
> for all the good reasons they cited.

Shipping an MTA by default just gives developers the expectation that if 
they pass something to sendmail then it'll be read by a human. Since 
that's plainly untrue we should stop doing it and replace it with 
something that's actually useful.

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