Rahul Sundaram (sundaram@fedoraproject.org) said:
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.
The entire reason that a MTA is dragged into the core group is for things like cron. In the base group, at (and up until recently, logwatch.)
If you replace that with ssmtp, *out of the box all that mail is dropped on the floor*. I don't think that's a reasonable position to take by default.
(There are solutions here, of course - asking for an e-mail address for each user, and asking which user is the admin. But we don't do that now.)
Bill