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Re: Mail. Mail! Mail?
- From: Zack Weinberg <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww at chiark dot greenend dot org dot uk>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 12:57:05 -0700
- Subject: Re: Mail. Mail! Mail?
- References: <20050509191237.GA7456@golux.woodcraft.me.uk>
Matthew Woodcraft <mattheww@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> There is at least one serious distribution which has considered having no
> /usr/sbin/sendmail (or mailx) in a default installation:
>
> http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2005-February/004207.html
What a horrible idea. It's not just about LSB compliance - programs
shouldn't have to implement their own SMTP senders, they should be
able to rely on /usr/sbin/sendmail. (I personally go even farther,
and consider any program [other than a dedicated MTA] which contains
its own SMTP sender, rather than relying on /usr/sbin/sendmail, to be
buggy.)
This is no longer on-topic for gcc@, though.
zw