On 2/6/07, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 12:53 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > > > 0.56% of people need Towers of Hanoi? (don't mind me, just passing > > through...) :) > Alan is the one who brought that up, and IIRC in relation to exim, not > sendmail. Well, there were folks claiming that sendmail is capable of things that Exim can't do, although they don't seem able to give any real examples of what kind of tasks they're thinking of. Having exhausted the real-world possibilities of things you might actually want to do with an MTA, we thought maybe they were thinking of Hanoi?
I can give one legitimate reason for not including exim. Including exim would make David Woodhouse happy after 7 years of asking it in Red Hat/Fedora Linux. If exim becomes the default SMTP in FC7.. I expect David would retire shortly after as his life ambition would have been completed.. instead it should be listed as something to be brought up at FC8. To be honest, all I ask for is that if it is not sendmail, that a) First boot has an advanced option to select which MTA you want to use versus having to select it via a kickstart b) That there is good and clear documentation on how to use that MTA on a system. I have come to like postfix, but it took me 3 days of extensive reading to get it to act similarly as sendmail did for a standalone system some localized email and some central email. I expect that exim would be the same as I am not used to it.. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
