Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

[RW]

On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:26:40 +0200
Erik Trulsson <ertr1013 at student.uu.se> wrote:

> If the default MTA were changed many existing users would be quite
> upset when their working configurations suddenly stopped working - so
> one should not change the default MTA without a very good reason.
> 

Although NetBSD did it. From what I've heard they did it progressively,
keeping both in the base for a period.