On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 01:31:32PM +0200, Lutz Lange wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > i've just wondered why sendmail is still the default MTA in Fedora. > Please enlighten me? This is a (very) controversial issue. If I recall well, it has been decided not to change anything for F10, but there was an heated thread some time ago, and maybe this could be discussed in the timeframe of F11. To sum up some people considered that local delivery was a must for the default MTA, and that a send-only MTA wasn't good enough, eg, for cronie. My personnal opinion is that there should not be any MTA in the @base or @code group, and that a MTA should be chosed if it is pulled in as a dependency, so it could be sendmail or anything else. Whether local delivery is a must for cronie or other packages that today require /usr/sbin/sendmail is another story that caould be discussed a bit more, though in the end it seems to me that this should be up to the maintainer. But could you please elaborate a bit more on something like a proposal? -- Pat -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
