Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

[Oliver Herold]

Hi,

'most people' is a vague term,

http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200708/mxsurvey.html

if you have a look at this survey, sendmail rules it. So 'most' depends on the
context and a mailinglist isn't of much significance in my opionion.

Cheers,

Oliver

On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of FreeBSD it 
> includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the various utilities such 
> as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are all in FreeBSDs core, as 
> developed in the same CVS repo. Having read the mails on this list for 
> several weeks it seems obvious that most people regard Postfix or EXIM to 
> be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering why is sendmail the MTA that is integral 
> to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be ace to have the default one be Postfix or 
> something?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gabe
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