On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Billy Crook <billycrook@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Jul 19, 2013 2:16 PM, "Bill Nottingham" <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> It's not as if the default MTA configuration, as I understand it (no smart >> host, attempt to send all mail directly with the FQDN) is generally useful >> OOTB. > > It is to me, and I suspect I am not alone. Amen. Admittedly, life gets complex when a "root" alias is needed and you are stuck behind an email SMARTHOST, but the default works just *fine* for delivering nightly cron jobs and error reports to the local root account. It's a very handy config, so system reporting is merely ignored, and not entirely lost, when setting up bare systems. And there dozens if not hundreds of critical system tools that would wind up auto-installing it. Activating such a core resource by surprise, long after setup, is going to cause surprises. Mind you, I'm not so fond of sendmail these days, and strongly prefer postfix for ease of configuration. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
