On Tue, 2005-02-22 at 17:00 -0500, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:50:46PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > Exim would be a far better default, because it's far easier to configure > > and far better documented. In FC4 it ships with TLS enabled by default, > > and SMTP AUTH support present but commented out in the specfile. It also > > 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. there also is the angle of security history. Ok no mail system is perfect there. I still rather install ssmtp or similar on all boxes by default unless the admin explicitly asked for a mail *server* not just a mail sender ... Esp since a simple mail sender ought to be easy to configure "Enter the email server as your ISP told you to use below" and vroom smarthost done... from a security pov that ought to be a lot nicer.
