Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:03:32 +0200 From: Matthijs Breemans <matthijs@groov.nl> To: Gabriel Dragffy <gabe@dragffy.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <bf7c8c65f7bed6930afd32b66995b5aa@steak.groov.nl> In-Reply-To: <6CBE22B2-206F-4695-889F-5630E6B9399C@dragffy.com> References: <6CBE22B2-206F-4695-889F-5630E6B9399C@dragffy.com>
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Sendmail does its job for sending usermail, postfix or exim would be overkill for that. Just my 0.02 tho Matthijs On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 11:55:51 +0100, Gabriel Dragffy <gabe@dragffy.com> wrote: > Just been wondering about this. If you do a standard install of > FreeBSD it includes things such as a basic FTP daemon, all the > various utilities such as df, ls, etc. SSHD etc. I assum these are > all in FreeBSDs core, as developed in the same CVS repo. Having read > the mails on this list for several weeks it seems obvious that most > people regard Postfix or EXIM to be the best MTAs, so I'm wondering > why is sendmail the MTA that is integral to FreeBSD? Wouldn't it be > ace to have the default one be Postfix or something? > > Regards > > Gabe > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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