Re: Can I remove sendmail?

Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Just go to services and shut it off

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On 5/30/2012 5:14 PM, Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
...
 sergiocmailbox-fedorausers(a)yahoo.com.br:
> Hi, we have the sendmail.service enabled by default even in the minimal
installation.
> I only use Thunderbird as my email client.
> May I uninstall sendmail? Is it needed for something I'm not aware of?
>
> Regards.
 It was already mentioned that sendmail is MTA (may it be called a mail
 server for simplicity). I really don't know why a regular desktop user
 is forced to have such infrastructure installed and operational out of
 the box only to allow some poorly designed programs to pass messages to
 the user. I think it's one of that old UNIX approaches that need to be
 revised and changed to better suite desktop Linux users.

 I think you can disable sendmail service (it is not installed by default
 in Debian) but removing package might break some other package
 dependencies so don't do it.

 Mateusz Marzantowicz 