Re: Switching from sendmail to Dragonfly Mail Agent by default

From: Jan Bramkamp <crest_at_rlwinm.de>
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:24:29 UTC
On 13.10.22 15:05, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> As of today, on a default FreeBSD setup, a mailer agent is configured in order
> to be able to distribute locally emails (from crontab for example) and/or for
> relaying those emails. This role has been served by a stripped down version of
> sendmail up to now. By stripped down, I mean it is built without the support
> for feature that would make it a full featured MTA, like no support for ldap.
>
> Long time ago we have imported Dragonfly Mail Agent, a minimalistic MTA born
> within the Dragonfly Project, covering exactly those needs and only those.
>
> It has matured slowly over the time and we believe we have addressed all the
> major issues reported preventing it from being the default.
>
> For FreeBSD 14 we would like to activate it by default.
>
> It means:
> - install by default mailer.conf from dma (and install the one from sendmail
>    in /usr/share/example/sendmail)
> - activate sendmail_enable=NONE by default in /etc/default/rc.conf
> - make mailwrappe fallback on dma.
>
> If noone brings an obvious blocker, this change will happen in the next couple
> of weeks!
Thanks for touching this touchy subject.