On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ralf Ertzinger wrote: >> >> Hi. >> >> On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:38:34 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote >> >>> Surely the SMTP server isn't absolutely required to be on localhost? >>> I never send any mail via localhost SMTP, it's all done through my >>> company's mail servers or the Google ones for personal mail. >> >> Unfortunately, sendmail isn't just a program, it's an API. Calling >> /usr/lib/sendmail has been the way to get mail out (whereever out >> is) in UNIX for, well, as long as sendmail exists, which is quite some >> time. > > Yes, it seems odd that it bothers someone now when computers are orders of > magnitude faster than when this scheme was designed. > >> That does not mean that it has to be "the" sendmail, of course. >> >> Oh, and LSB requires that it's there. > > Postfix is probably the only alternative that has all of the expected > functionality, but really the effort should be focused on the only real > issue here which is that starting the daemon can cause a visible delay at > boot time - and there are several easy fixes for that. Seems like doing an IO heavy task like this will no longer be much of an issue with a parallel init type startup. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
