On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:00 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: >I must disagree. If the user has to know what the mail system is you've >already failed the main usability test for "the general user". If they know >what they are doing then they probably have an opinion already and a preferred >app, and can also work yum/up2date. > >The point at which you start saying things like "we should use sendmail" with >that kind of user I think personally is the point at which you ship xyz >mailer because the GUI configuration tool supports it seamlessly You haven't been watching #fedora much recently, have you? I'm far more adamant about "it shouldn't be sendmail" than "it should be exim" but sendmail definitely needs to go, and on balance I think Exim would make a better choice than Postfix, because it's so much better documented. -- dwmw2