Description of problem: By default, sendmail starts as a service. Its memory footprint when doing nothing is about 2.5Mb. It also adds a few seconds to system startup. Sendmail should be run through xinetd by default. Users who have the wish and comptence to configure sendmail will also know how to run it through /etc/init.d instead of xinetd. (i.e. If they can configure sendmail.cf, they will know how to switch from xinetd to rc.d). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): All How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Fedora! Actual results: Sendmail runs always, wasting memory and CPU cycles. Expected results: Sendmail should be run via xinetd, and hence only run on demand. Additional info:
Setup will stay as it is, but you can change to the above for your local machines anytime. Please also note that you might want to run sendmail then also from cron to make sure queue runs get done. greetings, Florian La Roche