sendmail being the default MTA in FreeBSD

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:00:14PM +0200, ftyczka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was just wondering - are there any (perhaps historical) reasons, why
> sendmail is the default MTA that comes with the system on FreeBSD ?

Historical; it's BSD licensed; lots of people still use it; FreeBSD
needs to ship with a SMTP agent to be a useful server

Kris

P.S. Attempts by anyone else to restart the perennial thread about
changing the default mailer/removing sendmail from the base will be
ignored.
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