From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 12 8: 9:30 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 603E437B401 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:09:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8E7C43F75 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:09:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.strauser.com (kirk@pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.8/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h2CG9QKU089602 for ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 16:09:26 GMT (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why BIND and sendmail installed by default? From: Kirk Strauser Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:09:22 -0600 In-Reply-To: <1598.192.168.0.4.1047484743.squirrel@mail.linopryne.com> ("Jorge Mario G."'s message of "Wed, 12 Mar 2003 10:59:03 -0500 (EST)") Message-ID: <87y93kd0st.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 References: <1598.192.168.0.4.1047484743.squirrel@mail.linopryne.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-03-12T15:59:03Z, "Jorge Mario G." writes: > I've seen that BIND and sendmail (till 4.7-RELEASE havent tested 5.0 yet) > are installed by default my question is simple... WHY? Because noone's done the work of removing them. Volunteering? > I see this from a end user point of view (mine): > > Do I need a my own mailserver??? > - No, we have yahoo.com :-) So, you're OK with setting your nightly periodic output to be sent through yahoo.com? What if you're systems trying to tell you that there's a network outage, but can't because, well, there's a network outage? =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+b1u15sRg+Y0CpvERAtmSAJ9jnLTyZ/RP2r0+76AA/6s+aUlGTQCeLur9 EmW4Js+myitd03v56b1CwCo= =Ps1n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message