Date: 28 Dec 2005 09:27:26 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail X port Message-ID: <441wzxnvox.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <200512280535.WAA16578@lariat.net> References: <200512280535.WAA16578@lariat.net>
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Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> 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/
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