Mail selection options in sysinstall(8).

[Eirik Oeverby]

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Hey,

On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 00:13:20 +0200
"Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On 2003.09.18 23:44:42 +0200, Clement Laforet wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:29:42 -0400
> > Tom Rhodes <trhodes at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Tom ! 
> > 
> > > This is just a quick note that the MTA installation options in
> > > sysinstall(8) has changed.  Users now have the option of choosing
> > > between Sendmail, Postfix, and Exim.
> > > 
> > > Due to legal issues, qmail was not added to the selection.  Sorry.
> > 
> > Do you think it could be a good idea to add "simple" SMTP systems
> > like ssmtp or any local delivery /usr/sbin/sendmail clone ? Most of
> > system act as standalone machine or satellite one (i.e. machine uses
> > a smtp server on the LAN), and using a full features MTA is, for me,
> > a little bit useless.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea.  Postfix and Exim were mainly chosen because
> we knew them, but the code was written with the intention to support
> more MTA's.

Great. The obvious choice would be qmail. Not sure if that one
integrates/replaces sendmail cleanly though. 
 
> To add an extra MTA to sysinstall requires that there is a package
> available, and we need to know if there is any extra steps are needed
> to make it "just work" out of the box.  If you can supply this
> information I can rather quickly make a patch to add another MTA to
> sysinstall.
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