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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2022 13:45:31 +0100
From:      Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Dag-Erling =?utf-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) in the base system
Message-ID:  <20220131124531.aoc7lowc3f7vyjaf@aniel.nours.eu>
In-Reply-To: <86czk8rhcd.fsf@next.des.no>
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On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:25:54PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> writes:
> > I am interested in determining whether dma is a viable minimal base
> > system MTA, and if not what gaps remain.
> 
> It cannot.  Ask bapt@ who was the one to import it, and later abandon
> the idea of making it our default MTA.  The reason was that it does not
> have a default domain setting, so it cannot handle email from cron,
> periodic etc. where the recipient is just a user name (usually “root”),
> and the devs were not willing to add that feature.  I have email as far
> back as 2015 on the subject.
> 
This has been fixed since. (not by me)

Bapt



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