From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 31 13:06:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19783 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 13:06:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.fx.genx.net (bright.fx.genx.net [206.64.4.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19777; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 13:06:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.fx.genx.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA38811; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:08:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.fx.genx.net: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 16:08:26 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.fx.genx.net To: Mike Smith cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required. In-Reply-To: <199812312006.MAA01368@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:10:22 +0200 > > > From: Mark Murray > > > > > > We gain the ability to emphasise Postfix and de-emphasise Sendmail. > > > After an appropriate period, we gain the ability to nuke Sendmail > > > as Postfix has been solidly tested/used/ported/integrated for > > > "long enough". No combustion over definitions of "long enough", > > > please :-). > > > > WHOA!!!!! > > > > what if no one else likes postfix. > > > > postfix is coming into the tree as /usr/src/contrib. > > sendmail is the default mail transfer agent. > > individual users can switch either machines to use postfix as > > the mta. > > there is no intention of removing sendmail from the tree. > > This clearly demonstrates that there is no mandate, nor no technical > justification for bringing postfix in. Please make a port of it and > stay with convention. I think Sun and many other distributions are chiming in that they WILL switch to postfix pretty soon, perhaps doing as jmb says and having both systems in place would be a good idea for a while, i'm sure if postfix gets a lot of bad press people will want it removed, but it's nice to have the latest and greatest, instead of a year later everyone whining about NOT having postfix in the base system. -Alfred oh, btw, how do i figure the size passed into an ioctl from the handler? :) > > Now is not a good time for a -core member to be demonstrating personal > bias over established convention with regards to the FreeBSD source tree. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message