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Date:      12 Dec 2023 14:47:21 -0500
From:      "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To:        "Aryeh Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, wfdudley@gmail.com
Subject:   Re: Sendmail on 14-RELEASE
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>> Most freebsd machines are not used as mail servers. DMA is small and
>> fast and adequate to handle mail from a stub system that might have a
>> local mailbox or two and relays the rest of the mail to a smarthost.
>
> I would completely disagree that the machine I was asking about does
> not use email at all except during manual and automatic testing of a
> web app it is the main test/development machine it is for.   Without
> something that can *SEND* mail it is impossible to test this
> functionality. ...

As I said in the message you quoted, DMA sends mail anywhere you want by 
relaying it to a smarthost.  I have virtual FreeBSD machines all over the 
place with DMA that mail me status reports.

Perhaps this would be a good time to read the manual rather than guessing.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly



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