Arthur Pemberton wrote:
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Les Mikesell
<lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Dimi Paun wrote:
>>> Sendmail startup should only be slow if your dns is broken or you've
>>> removed the localhost entry from your hosts file. Either of those
>>> needs to be fixed anyway.
>> Give me a break. What naive user would know what to do with
>> the thing? Even if it takes 200ms to load it's way too much.
> Users typically don't do anything directly with sendmail but during an
> install an alias for root should be set up so system messages reach someone
> who cares about the things logwatch and smartctl will send.
We've been saying this since Fedora 7 (at least, maybe longer). It's
never happened, I don't know why.
Not every developer is subscribed or reading all the threads here. If
you want suggestions to actually reach the developers, it is always
better to file a enhancement request in bugzilla.
Rahul