RFC: Sendmail deprecation ?

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Wed Dec 6 23:20:15 UTC 2017


On 6 Dec 2017, at 22:33, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose the deprecation then removal of sendmail in 
> base.
>
> Deprecation will happen in the form of FreeBSD 12.0 being built 
> WITHOUT_SENDMAIL
> by default
>
> removal would happen in FreeBSD 13.0

I don’t see the point of keeping the source and possible support for 
it in base for another 5-ish years if it’s not build by default.
If this should go through then just don’t ship it at all anymore in 
12.0-RELEASE please.

/bz


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