Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2022 18:24:29 +0200 From: Jan Bramkamp <crest@rlwinm.de> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Switching from sendmail to Dragonfly Mail Agent by default Message-ID: <827fd52f-b488-aed0-0d4e-b6cbb4b8e580@rlwinm.de> In-Reply-To: <20221013130533.n33j6fziwkqnjppc@aniel.nours.eu> References: <20221013130533.n33j6fziwkqnjppc@aniel.nours.eu>
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On 13.10.22 15:05, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As of today, on a default FreeBSD setup, a mailer agent is configured in order > to be able to distribute locally emails (from crontab for example) and/or for > relaying those emails. This role has been served by a stripped down version of > sendmail up to now. By stripped down, I mean it is built without the support > for feature that would make it a full featured MTA, like no support for ldap. > > Long time ago we have imported Dragonfly Mail Agent, a minimalistic MTA born > within the Dragonfly Project, covering exactly those needs and only those. > > It has matured slowly over the time and we believe we have addressed all the > major issues reported preventing it from being the default. > > For FreeBSD 14 we would like to activate it by default. > > It means: > - install by default mailer.conf from dma (and install the one from sendmail > in /usr/share/example/sendmail) > - activate sendmail_enable=NONE by default in /etc/default/rc.conf > - make mailwrappe fallback on dma. > > If noone brings an obvious blocker, this change will happen in the next couple > of weeks! Thanks for touching this touchy subject.
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