Once upon a time, Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> said:
On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 06:21:45PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Look, the proposal is not calling to replace sendmail, it's calling to
> remove any MTA. So "sendmail is a bad MTA" is not a good argument for
this
No, it's *really* not calling to "remove any MTA". It's calling for no
MTA
to be installed by default, or at least not in the minimal install.
The two arguments against this change I hear are:
* "This is a slipperly slope to the doom of all MTAs". This argument isn't
very
convincing -- otherwise non-sendmail MTAs would already be dead, as would
every other server we don't install by default.
* "An MTA should be part of the base design." This point I'm open to,
although I think it requires more work than people are willing to
actually do, and I'd like to see a counter-proposal involving actually
doing that work.
I run lots of servers with MTAs, and sendmail in particular (you mean
everybody can't parse and understand lines like this:
R$*+$*@$* $: $1+$2@$3 $| $>D <$3> <?> <!Spam> <>
without Google? :) ). I have no problem with no-default-MTA. An MTA
only works in most cases with additional configuration, and that
configuration will vary widely between setups and MTAs.
--
Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>