On 08/27/2009 02:18 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Rahul Sundaram (sundaram(a)fedoraproject.org) said:
>> Congratulations, you've now installed TWO mtas on every livecd install.
>> Happy?
>
> Nah. Once you add ssmtp to the core group, you can very well remove any
> mta's from the base group. This will solve the original problem being
> raised in the discussion as well.
Except it changes the default for everyone to something with less
functionality, which I'm fairly sure we don't want to do after feature
freeze. Notably, ssmtp won't queue if you're offline, if I'm reading
the docs right.)
If feature freeze is the only consideration preventing it from
happening, then queue it for Fedora 13. Less functionality is perfectly
fine unless there is a strong case that more of those features is
actually being used by a majority in order to satisfy the nominal
requirements of being a default package.
(Honestly, if we're going to move an MTA from base to core,
I'd suggest
we should just do s/sendmail/postfix/, and let those who need less
change it.)
My point is simply that most users in Fedora users are bound to use it
on a desktop and wouldn't need a MTA and we should let people just
install their mta of choice, be it exim, postfix or sendmail if they
really need one. On the other hand, even if do a more full featured mta,
I agree it is really high time we moved away from sendmail. SUSE, Ubuntu
and Mandriva? is using postfix and Debian is using exim.
Rahul