RFC: Sendmail deprecation ?

[Sean Chittenden]

> That's not really the question. The question is "why won't 'pkg install
> sendmail' work for users that need it?" There are two technical reasons for
> why a component is in base and two emotional / political.

There's also a workflow issue.  Receiving feedback from systems via email
messages is quaint (albeit convenient for low numbers of systems).  It's only
has value for administrators who have a process setup that lets them consume
this information or use the information as an audit log (??!!??).  If someone
has opted into this style of workflow, they're going to drop something off in
sendmail.cf or whatever their MDA config file happens to be.

+1 for deprecating this from base and giving people the choice to `pkg install
sendmail`.  For everyone else deploying large numbers of systems, this is
tedious to rip out and yet-another-thing to explain as a requirement when
operationalizing FreeBSD for production workloads.

-sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden
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