Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 14:18:37 +0200 From: Oliver Herold <oliver@akephalos.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20070922121836.GA992@olymp.home> In-Reply-To: <6CBE22B2-206F-4695-889F-5630E6B9399C@dragffy.com> References: <6CBE22B2-206F-4695-889F-5630E6B9399C@dragffy.com>
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Hi, 'most people' is a vague term, http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200708/mxsurvey.html if you have a look at this survey, sendmail rules it. So 'most' depends on the context and a mailinglist isn't of much significance in my opionion. Cheers, Oliver On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 11:55:51AM +0100, Gabriel Dragffy 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" -- The state law of Pennsylvania prohibits singing in the bathtub.
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