Re: Turning Off Sendmail In Fedora 11

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"G.Wolfe Woodbury" <ggw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Robert L Cochran wrote:
>> I notice that sendmail is turned on by default in Fedora 11. I would 
>> like to turn it off. What is the impact of doing this -- will I cause a 
>> problem with other services like httpd? I haven't really paid attention 
>> to trends in sendmail management these days.

> Sendmail is enabled so that there is a local mail transfer agent (MTA).

Right.  You can put in a different MTA if you prefer, but not having one
at all is not very workable.  There's too much stuff that wants to send
mail to root when it has a problem.

			regards, tom lane

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