Re: Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) in the base system

From: Darrin Smith <beldin_at_worldsmith.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 00:05:09 UTC
On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 16:34:10 -0500
Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:

> The Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) is a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA)
> which accepts mail from a local Mail User Agent (MUA) and delivers it
> locally or to a smarthost for delivery. dma does not accept inbound
> mail (i.e., it does not listen on port 25) and is not intended to
> provide the same functionality as a full MTA like postfix or sendmail.
> It is intended for use cases such as delivering cron(8) mail.
> 
> Since 2014 we have a copy of dma in the base system available as an
> optional component, enabled via the WITH_DMAGENT src.conf knob.
> 
> I am interested in determining whether dma is a viable minimal base
> system MTA, and if not what gaps remain. If you have enabled DMA on
> your systems (or are willing to give it a try) and have any feedback
> or are aware of issues please follow up or submit a PR as appropriate.
> 

Another user here who uses it on every machine except my mail server,
have been for years and it does the incidental mail handling
reliably. 

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