On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:23 +0100, pbrobinson@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 12:34 AM, Jon Masters <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have an MTA installed because I expect to get emailed logs, and root@ > > does go somewhere. Now, there are a couple of things I should admit: > > > > 1). I did replace the out-of-the-box MTA, because it was sendmail. I > > don't actually care too much about using sendmail, I happened to have > > configuration files that just work, because the entire mail subsystem > > wasn't rewritten recently, so I could just copy those files in place. > > > > 2). I care more about the "server" experience on this machine than > > pretty GUI stuff. I know that's no longer the default here :( I also > > like to think about what I want to base upon Fedora in the future. > > But my point still remains that it doesn't work out of the box and you > have to do stuff to make it work, so if your in that situation its not > hard to do "yum install someMTA" To be clear, I'm in the "but I don't want Fedora to be just a GNOME desktop" camp. So I see removing the MTA by default as just another step in the wrong direction. Even if I will replace it with something else. I know I'm not alone in that particular train of thought. Jon. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
