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Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?
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Yuri wrote:
> It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail.
> 
> How many people actually use it? Very few.

Are you sure about that?

AFAIK, all system reports are sent with the sendmail binary.

Steve