On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:49 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dimi Paun wrote:
>
>> Sendmail startup should only be slow if your dns is broken or you've
>> removed the localhost entry from your hosts file. Either of those
>> needs to be fixed anyway.
>
> Give me a break. What naive user would know what to do with
> the thing? Even if it takes 200ms to load it's way too much.
Users typically don't do anything directly with sendmail but during an
install an alias for root should be set up so system messages reach someone
who cares about the things logwatch and smartctl will send.
We've been saying this since Fedora 7 (at least, maybe longer). It's
never happened, I don't know why.