On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 08:55:37AM -0800, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:15 PM +0100 Nicolas Mailhot
<Nicolas.Mailhot(a)laPoste.net> wrote:
Presumably the people installing Fedora who can't configure sendmail are
either home users (who have a full-featured ISP to operate a real MTA) or
business users operating behind a company MTA. AFAIK, Fedora isn't being
pushed as an "MTA training platform", so there's no need to keep one in the
Core product when it's tight for space. And if it's not tight for space,
one could still use a very simple outbound-only queuing MTA for the default
and make Postfix/Exim/Sendmail choices for advanced users.
That makes some sense. But then you have the broken upgrade path issue if you
drop _all_ fully featured MTAs from Core. Potentially that is.
I think it's more plausible once the installer supports installing from other
repos. Which is FC5 I hear.
So for FC4 I think one of the current MTAs should be present. I'm not going to
dare suggest which one, but one of them should remain :). Then for FC5 we can
do what you suggested.
josh