Re: Nice easy Spamassassin question

On 15/09/2025 22:37, Lexi Winter wrote:
> Frank Leonhardt:
>> Apparently someone's decided to drop sendmail from the base system in 15.
>   
> this is not true, sendmail is still shipped in base in 15.0 and there
> are no plans to remove it in any future release.  in fact, i just
> committed a couple of sendmail fixes in the last few days.
>
> please tell whoever told you this that they are misinformed.

SirDice, 11th July, 2024:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/upgrading-to-release-14-from-13.91161/

"And if you are actively usingsendmail(8) 
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sendmail&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release-ports>I 
suggest switching to_mail/sendmail_ 
<http://www.freshports.org/mail/sendmail>instead. In 15 sendmail will be 
completely removed from the base."

If this is not the case then I'm pleased to hear it, but after the 
Berkeley Internet Name Domain daemon (and most importantly tools) was 
removed from BSD; and /etc/motd was replaced by something incompatible; 
and DMA has been the default since 14.0, it sounded quite 
plausible.SirDice is very well informed so I assume it was correct a 
year ago, and movements such as this tend to keep going until they get 
their way. Do you know what's going on in the background?

>> But spamassassin is causing me trouble.
> sorry, no idea about that, but i wanted to correct the above.
Yeah, it should be a fairly straightforward thing but the documentation 
is lacking and I'm trying to do something about that. If you're running 
a an actual mail server you're going want 
sendmail+SASL+spamassassin+DKIM, and these days in a jail, and it's a 
bit of a pain. The handbook now covers SASL, but only the ports version 
and requires the base sendmail to be recompiled. (Cue Exim and Postfix 
aficionados, who may have a point).

Regards, Frank.