--- Em qua, 30/5/12, Mateusz Marzantowicz <mmarzantowicz(a)osdf.com.pl> escreveu:
De: Mateusz Marzantowicz <mmarzantowicz(a)osdf.com.pl>
Assunto: Re: Can I remove sendmail?
Para: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Data: Quarta-feira, 30 de Maio de 2012, 18:14
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
--
Now that you mention it, Debian installs exim but when I used it IIRC I removed it.