From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 28 14:27:34 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5B616A41F for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:27:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B564B43D62 for ; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:27:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 13849 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2005 14:27:27 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail1.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 28 Dec 2005 14:27:27 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 99ECA28423; Wed, 28 Dec 2005 09:27:26 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Brett Glass References: <200512280535.WAA16578@lariat.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 28 Dec 2005 09:27:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <200512280535.WAA16578@lariat.net> Message-ID: <441wzxnvox.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 30 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail X port X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 14:27:34 -0000 Brett Glass 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. I figure it shouldn't be too hard to assemble a reasonably working port for it. You could use existing ports to provide the missing functionality; mail/mini_sendmail for submission and maybe procmail would be able to handle delivery. Then you need to add a bunch of users and groups for the individual daemons to run as. I'm not sure how you best do that when there isn't really a standard for the UID/GID values to use, but brute force would probably work okay for alpha-quality software. Be well. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/