Sendmail deprecation ?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 07:48:40PM -0800, Cy Schubert wrote:
> In message <201712070251.vB72p58k054508 at slippy.cwsent.com>, Cy Schubert 
> writes:
> > In message <B16088FF-FDE1-4EDF-AB76-D60C2E5F3E8F at panasas.com>, "Pokala, 
> > Ravi" w
> > rites:
> > > So less "no dma(8)", and more "no default MTA at all; make them select one"
> > ?
> >
> > Yes.
> 
> Thinking about this further and softening my position a little, I'd be 
> satisfied with a knob to not build dma in base at all. (Though the desire 
> to remove bloat I prefer not to replace when something is removed.)

There is a knob already not to build it WITHOUT_DMAGENT
> 
> Upline sendmail hasn't been updated for a a year and almost eight months. 
> (I had misgivings of the sale.) Having said that, I think sendmail's time 
> has come however I'm not convinced replacing it with another default MTA is 
> the solution. A stub like pkg that could install a package, providing the 
> user with a list to choose from, possibly timing out after a short period 
> of time to install the dma pkg (or port) makes the most sense to me and 
> should be a good compromise for all.
> 
> As gjb@ has been working toward packaged base, would it not be a good time 
> for the MTA replacement project to consider relying on dma ports/packages?
> 
> Ports/packages are just as much FreeBSD as base is.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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> 
> 	The need of the many outweighs the greed of the few.
> 
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