On 2021-02-20, David Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > For each MTA, you also have to ensure that their well-known recipes > for passing off work to other software (like MDAs) still work, else > Debian gets lumbered with supporting all the breakages that occur > (or, worse, loses reputation). >
Did someone mention (I have neglected to read most of the thread) that Fedora has a switching mechanism? Fedora 12 provides three MTAs: Sendmail, Postfix, and Exim. If all three are installed, sendmail is the default MTA. The Mail Transport Agent Switcher allows for the selection of either sendmail, postfix, or exim as the default MTA for the system. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/12/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-email-switchmail.html The Mail Transport Agent Switcher. Almost sounds like a name invented by the marketing department. Anyway, I guess the MTAS is irrelevant because we're not concerned with Fedora here. But I suppose its existence proves its usefulness---or maybe the word is practicality---at least for Fedora users.
