From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 1 7:57:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from exchange.mistral.co.uk (gate.mistral.co.uk [195.184.225.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89A2037B856 for ; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 07:57:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hdm@mistral.co.uk) Received: from bizboz.mistral.co.uk ([195.184.225.25]) by exchange.mistral.co.uk with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2448.0) id PLBL6B5L; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:50:19 +0100 Received: by bizboz.mistral.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A960B382; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:57:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:57:35 +0100 From: Dominic Mitchell To: Chris Fedde Cc: Holtor , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail 8.11.0 Message-ID: <20000801155735.B97403@bizboz.mistral.co.uk> References: <20000801141032.2153.qmail@web121.yahoomail.com> <200008011438.e71Ecud29174@fedde.littleton.co.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200008011438.e71Ecud29174@fedde.littleton.co.us>; from chris@fedde.littleton.co.us on Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:38:56AM -0600 X-Warning: Incoming message from The Big Giant Head! X-OS: FreeBSD 4.1-RC i386 X-Uptime: 3:39PM up 11 days, 23:15, 8 users, load averages: 0.06, 0.24, 0.45 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:38:56AM -0600, Chris Fedde wrote: > I find > the whole mailwrapper thing bizarre in the extreem. It is similar > to the whole /usr/local/etc/rc.d scheme where we are adding a > layer of indirection when there is no need for one. On the contrary - I find it a complete godsend. It makes replacing the standard sendmail with a port/package and absolute breeze. It's far nicer than having each port hack around in /usr/sbin for no good reason. -Dom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message