Sendmail X port

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Dec 28), Lowell Gilbert said:
> Brett Glass <brett at lariat.net> writes:
> > I don't see Sendmail X available as a port or package. I'm
> > interested in trying this version because it's the first to
> > eliminate the horribly cryptic system of m4 macros, "classes", and
> > address parsing rules that configured earlier versions. Is there a
> > reason why it's not available as a package or port for FreeBSD?
> 
> Well, it's still missing a lot of functionality that you need in a
> FreeBSD system (such as the ability to actually deliver or submit
> messages), so it's more of a challenge to port properly than one
> would think.  That's probably why it's still considered alpha
> software.
> 
> It builds easily enough, though.  And the configuration sure is a lot
> simpler (at the expense of some very powerful capabilities that were
> very rarely used).  So it's not as though there is some reason
> somebody is trying to keep it *out* of the ports system.

It is in ports, as mail/smx .

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	Dan Nelson
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