Re: Announcing Fedora 12 Alpha

[Adam Miller]

If we were to drop sendmail in favor of postfix would everyone be happy or
would postfix present the same set of issues?

-Adam
(From Android)

On Aug 26, 2009 10:30 PM, "Michael Cronenworth"  wrote:

On 08/26/2009 05:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > What are those mails and
why should I care about t...
I've brought this fact up a year or so ago and my e-mail was swept under the
rug. I suspect this thread will also be forgotten about and the issue will
resurface in F13>F14>etc.

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[Scott Robbins]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:51:04PM -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
> If we were to drop sendmail in favor of postfix would everyone be happy or
> would postfix present the same set of issues?
>
> -Adam
> (From Android)

Where's Android?  (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

*I* would be.  Last night, due to this thread, I did some googling and
it seems that someone began to work on a version of ssmtp, bssmtp, that
would do local delivery, but either lost interest or ran out of time.
I didn't look all that hard, but it seems as if there's really no small
smtp client/server that handles local delivery, save for the real MTAs,
e.g., sendmail, postfix and exim. (And qmail, and no doubt others I'm
forgetting.)

At present though, isn't Fedora using Exim?

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[Tom Horsley]

> > If we were to drop sendmail in favor of postfix would everyone be happy or
> > would postfix present the same set of issues?

I personally switched to postfix because I found it possible to
configure to do what I want (versus sendmail which is famously
cryptic and impossible to fiddle with without first climbing
the mount everest of learning curves :-).

No doubt all the folks who have reached the peak of everest
would resent having their hard won sendmail victories
undercut, but anyone starting from scratch has got to like
postfix better.

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[Bob Gustafson]

Postfix good.

That is one of the first things I do postinstall is dump sendmail and
install postfix.

On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 23:51 -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
> If we were to drop sendmail in favor of postfix would everyone be
> happy or would postfix present the same set of issues?
>
> -Adam
> (From Android)
> > On Aug 26, 2009 10:30 PM, "Michael Cronenworth" 
> > wrote:
> >
> > On 08/26/2009 05:24 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > What are those
> > mails and why should I care about t...
> >
> > I've brought this fact up a year or so ago and my e-mail was swept
> > under the rug. I suspect this thread will also be forgotten about
> > and the issue will resurface in F13>F14>etc.
> >
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[Genes MailLists]

On 08/27/2009 12:51 AM, Adam Miller wrote:
> If we were to drop sendmail in favor of postfix would everyone be happy
> or would postfix present the same set of issues?

Many of us have sendmail installations which are working very nicely -
dropping it and forcing us to change everything over to postfix would be
a huge problem - i like postfix - but being forced to switch from
sendmail to postfix would pose a significant issue.

If you meant instead - make one or other the default but ship both - i
have no issue.

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[Jesse Keating]

On Thu, 2009-08-27 at 20:08 -0400, Mail Lists wrote:
> Many of us have sendmail installations which are working very nicely -
> dropping it and forcing us to change everything over to postfix would be
> a huge problem - i like postfix - but being forced to switch from
> sendmail to postfix would pose a significant issue.
>
> If you meant instead - make one or other the default but ship both - i
> have no issue.

Sendmail wouldn't be removed from Fedora.  That would be insane.

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[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Mail Lists wrote:
> On 08/27/2009 12:51 AM, Adam Miller wrote:
> > If we were to drop sendmail in favor of postfix would everyone be happy
> > or would postfix present the same set of issues?
>
> Many of us have sendmail installations which are working very nicely -
> dropping it and forcing us to change everything over to postfix would be
> a huge problem - i like postfix - but being forced to switch from
> sendmail to postfix would pose a significant issue.
>
> If you meant instead - make one or other the default but ship both - i
> have no issue.

nothing is being removed. just one being chosen as the default.

-sv

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[Greg]

On 28/08/2009 10:08 AM, Mail Lists wrote:
> Many of us have sendmail installations which are working very nicely -
> dropping it and forcing us to change everything over to postfix would be
> a huge problem - i like postfix - but being forced to switch from
> sendmail to postfix would pose a significant issue.
>
> If you meant instead - make one or other the default but ship both - i
> have no issue.

no one would " force " you to use postfix, Fedora isnt Microsoft