Re: Sendmail on 14-RELEASE

On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 11:09 AM John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>
> It appears that William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> said:
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> >
> >I realize that I'm asking the wrong people this question, but what is the
> >point of "replacing" sendmail with dma?
>
> Most freebsd machines are not used as mail servers. DMA is small and
> fast and adequate to handle mail from a stub system that might have a
> local mailbox or two and relays the rest of the mail to a smarthost.

I would completely disagree that the machine I was asking about does
not use email at all except during manual and automatic testing of a
web app it is the main test/development machine it is for.   Without
something that can *SEND* mail it is impossible to test this
functionality.   Since this is a IoT medical app (remote cardiac
monitoring) the email's are potentially life critical since they do
stuff like tell the doctor when you have a "concerning arrhythmia" or
informing the patient that their monitor is offline (or damaged in
someway or another)... we use email also as txt gateway for the same
purpose.

So this is a case where having a fully working (but local only) MTA is
critical and DMA does not cut it!


>
> If you do want to run a mail server, you probably want to use postfix
> or exim so you don't have to deal with sendmail's antique and rococo
> configuration system. Having sendmail preinstalled just gets in the
> way.

Not having it gets in the way took 6 hrs of fiddling to figure it out
(did before I got any replies here).
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