-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Duane Clark wrote:
>The typical desktop user does not need sendmail. Most of us are getting >our email via pop, and sending mail with Mozilla or some other mail client. > >If someone does not know whether they need sendmail, then the answer is >real easy. You don't need it. So turn it off. Maybe ... but fetchmail (by default) wants it, so to the extent that fetchmail is popular, it's useful to have sendmail working out-of-the-box. Of course, you can configure fetchmail to use the MDA directly, but that's not as easy for novices. A bigger problem, in my experience (and beyond the scope of this discussion, not that this will stop me) is some mail clients' reliance on local sendmail (sometimes configurable, sometimes not), because many ISPs are now (justifiably) not allowing outbound 25 except to their own mail exchangers. This means, for example, that if your ISP does this, then on an out-of-the-box Red Hat installation, neither mutt, pine, nor emacs will be able to send mail at all until the user learns how to either configure the client to use the ISP's relay (Pine can do this, emacs can't, and I'm not sure about mutt), or configure sendmail to be a null forwarder (not a job for a newbie, but then again, neither is emacs ;-). As far as security goes, having sendmail running and only locally accessible (the default case with Red Hat) is not a problem unless you host untrusted local users who might take advantage of its insecurities. - -d - -- David Talkington PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/0xCA4C11AD.pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5.8 Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.75-6 iQA/AwUBPQjxdL9BpdPKTBGtEQKqsACg8nHekXItSdUs8w3LDdzyg92bYJEAn1xQ fEZ/r8XExAz587q4g9U83dnc =M7Ih -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
