Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:35:02 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org>
To:        David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Julio Merino <jmmv@freebsd.org>, "current@freebsd.org Current" <current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent
Message-ID:  <20140224083502.GY1699@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
In-Reply-To: <DC50F5AD-995D-4F8A-9EBD-4E6867282992@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20140223211155.GS1699@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <CAFY7cWBh0ThajQpK4wZYj0wPrhTL608wtNDQNvOLnryjp4_jCg@mail.gmail.com> <20140224073418.GX1699@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <DC50F5AD-995D-4F8A-9EBD-4E6867282992@FreeBSD.org>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--4mUolEm2oNas7DxE
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 08:32:13AM +0000, David Chisnall wrote:
> On 24 Feb 2014, at 07:34, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:
>=20
> > Usual complains about sendmail in base until now has been:
> > - complex configuration
> > - long history of security concerns
> > - no need for a full mta in base
>=20
> The other complaint is that sendmail is only half of a useable MTA in bas=
e.  If you actually want to use it for anything other than local delivery, =
then you need to turn on authentication, which means installing the saslaut=
hd port and then recompiling sendmail from source.  As soon as you do a fre=
ebsd-update, email stops working and you need to recompile sendmail again, =
meaning that you can't get binary security updates for one of the parts of =
the system with the worst security record.
>=20
> I would love to have something in the base system that can handle mail de=
livery and authenticated relaying out of the box.  OpenBSD now ships with o=
smpd, which seems to work quite well for this, and if dma can as well then =
I'm very much in favour of it.

dma can exactly do that :) while being smaller than opensmtpd (which is very
very nice as well, this is the one I use when I need a full smtp setup :))

regards,
Bapt

--4mUolEm2oNas7DxE
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.15 (FreeBSD)

iEYEARECAAYFAlMLBDYACgkQ8kTtMUmk6EyyqQCgqRXPl2WW6gfzrBH99wDumWpa
w7sAn0GMXXLZhaw+ii1zGKFl9LRRkOaa
=Erm/
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--4mUolEm2oNas7DxE--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20140224083502.GY1699>