man, 28.02.2005 kl. 17.55 skrev Kenneth Porter: > --On Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:15 PM +0100 Nicolas Mailhot > <Nicolas.Mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > The nice thing about a full-featured MTA with real local queues is your > > mail will still pass through when your ISP decides to do a big > > advertising campaign without upgrading its network first. > > I don't question the value of a full-featured MTA for an advanced user. I > just don't see it as being a required feature for a new user. > > Presumably the people installing Fedora who can't configure sendmail are > either home users (who have a full-featured ISP to operate a real MTA) or > business users operating behind a company MTA. AFAIK, Fedora isn't being > pushed as an "MTA training platform", so there's no need to keep one in the > Core product when it's tight for space. And if it's not tight for space, > one could still use a very simple outbound-only queuing MTA for the default > and make Postfix/Exim/Sendmail choices for advanced users. > Not having to start a mta at boot would make it boot quicker as well...
