DragonFlyBSD mail agent

Janky Jay, III jankyj at unfs.us
Thu Jan 8 11:17:31 PST 2009


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Hi, Michel.

	Ah! Okay. This makes much more sense... Its not a problem at all to
port the mail agent to FreeBSD. Just create a port, test and submit it
and voila! Sorry for the misunderstanding earlier...

Regards,
Janky Jay, III

Michel Talon wrote:
> "Janky Jay, III" wrote:
> 
>> By default, FreeBSD's Sendmail that comes in base already delivers mail
>> to local users and reads the aliases file also. It supports configuring
>> a smarthost as well. Unless there are some highly desired features in
>> the DragonFlyBSD mail agent, I seriously doubt there will be any
>> migration to it from Sendmail in the near future.
> 
> I was not speaking of replacing sendmail in the base system, only on
> offering this mail agent in the *ports*, this is why i posted in
> freebsd-ports. I should have been clearer.
> 
> This mail agent doesn't offer anything compelling compared to sendmail,
> only it is much smaller and presumably more secure. For example if you
> want a mail agent in a jail, you can envision to use this one instead of 
> sendmail because it is much lighter. Yes i know ssmtpd could do the
> same, more or less but this one has a little more flexibility without
> falling in the complexity of the big ones.
> 
> 
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