On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > = Proposed System Wide Change: No Default Sendmail = > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/NoDefaultSendmail > > Change owner(s): Lennart Poettering <lennart at poettering net>, Matthew > Miller <mattdm at fedoraproject org> > > No longer install an MTA by default. (Specifically let's remove sendmail from > @core and @standard comps groups.) > > == Detailed description == > Let's change the default install to no longer install an MTA by default. > Specifically, let's remove sendmail from the @standard and @core group. > > On today's Internet most SMTP hosts do not accept mail from a server which is > not configured as a mail exchange for a real domain, hence the default > configuration of sendmail is seldom useful. We don't necessarily have to have a MTA always running, or listening on port 25. However, having the /usr/sbin/sendmail API available to applications is valuable - it brings a significant system administration benefit of centralizing the SMTP configuration. Every application[1] can be rewritten to have its own SMTP client and configuration instead of calling /usr/sbin/sendmail, sure, but the system administrators are much better off if the applications call /usr/sbin/sendmail and $whatever implementation handles that. This is not a packaging matter of adding Requires:/usr/sbin/sendmail - we get the benefit of centralization only if applications support /usr/sbin/sendmail , and have it configured as the default. Removing a provider of /usr/sbin/sendmail from the default installation entirely makes both of these application design choices problematic and unlikely. Mirek [1] GUIs and similar things targeted at people who don't want to deal with strings like "/etc" are probably excluded; think of servers, daemons and the like instead. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
