DMA -- difference between base and port?

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> At the day job we've been using mail/dma port for a number of years now,
> and the rollout and config of files in /usr/local/etc/dma is part of our
> deploy process.
> 
> It only recently occurred to us that there was a "dma" in base since
> probably 11.0 (whomever wrote the release notes missed that -- and the
> manpage doesn't mention when it was added to FreeBSD).
> 
> We notice that the "newaliases" function in /etc/mail/mailer.conf is
> missing from the port version -- which means if you're using ports dma,
> you probably want to set newaliases to something like /usr/bin/true (dma
> doesn't use an aliases db, so there's no need to rebuild one, as
> newaliases would).  Again. something we noticed in our deployment process
> with puppet.
> 
> I can't find a feature-by-feature comparison for what one would install
> the port for (other than inertia, like we have).
> 
> There's no "version" command that I can find in DMA. (tried -h, -?, -v
> --version, -V).
> 
> Does "our" DMA track the Dragonfly version (like the base sendmail or
> openssl track world) or is it completely forked and unlikely to
> incorporate changes?  This would be useful in feature comparison.
> 
> Is it worth mentioning this in the pkg-message for mail/dma?

Yes, thanks for the heads-up.

Can you submit patches against the base 'dma' man page and the port
dma for those issues ?

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