On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 09:01 -0500, Mike Cronenworth wrote: > > I like being able to assume basic outbound MTA functionality is present, > > so imho having sendmail there by default is a Good Thing. (But yeah, no > > one reads root's mail. Maybe firstboot should give the option -- enabled > > by default -- to redirect root's mail to the first user created (or > > another address of the user's choice) via /etc/aliases). > > Outbound MTAs on a local user's system are essentially useless in > today's Internet. All major e-mail domains have spam filters > specifically blocking dynamic IPs and most Fedora users have dynamic IP > addresses, or in some non-US countries proxy IP addresses, even worse. > The solution would be to configure sendmail to relay through your ISPs > mail server, but who is going to do that. No one. (a) With sendmail there, you have a chance of being able to send outbound e-mail. You may need to adjust the configuration depending on the network. (b) Without sendmail or another MTA there, there is zero chance of being able to send outbound e-mail without doing configuration. So I suppose the question is "what percentage of systems in (a) can send outbound e-mail without further MTA configuration?" -- if this approaches 0, then a==b, and sendmail should be disabled by default. I don't think that's the case; sendmail can definitely send mail to the LAN, and there are a fair number of cases where sending beyond the LAN will work too (those with static IPs, those on a corporate or university network, ...) -Chris -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
