RFC: Sendmail deprecation ?

Cy Schubert Cy.Schubert at komquats.com
Thu Dec 7 02:22:29 UTC 2017


In message <CAG6CVpVP7F080tVXEWNh9c-PucB-_GEcCpmRL43eWB5mTQNLcg at mail.gmail.c
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, Conrad Meyer writes:
> On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at komquats.com> wrote:
> > Deprecate sendmail but no dma please. If anything, a small shell script to
> > invoke dialog to allow the user to select their MTA package of choice. This
> > could run at first boot -- which covers bsdinstall users and users who
> > install from source.
> >
> > Please no dma.
>
> Please elaborate beyond "no dma."

Replace sendmail with a dialog that installs the user's MTA of choice, 
which ports/pkgs has many to choose from. IMO we are replacing one bloat 
with other.

At the very least there should be a knob not to build/install dma.

P.S. Not related to this discussion, my choice of MTA BTW is one package 
for exterior facing servers and another for internal boxes.


-- 
Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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