From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jul 7 14:46: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from apoq.skynet.be (apoq.skynet.be [195.238.2.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2792037C3AA for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:45:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from blk@skynet.be) Received: from [10.0.1.3] (dialup582.brussels2.skynet.be [195.238.25.70]) by apoq.skynet.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380D01F417; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:45:42 +0200 (MET DST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: blk@pop.skynet.be Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20000708021509.B1136@physics.iisc.ernet.in> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000707095841.047c6ee0@localhost> <20000708021509.B1136@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 23:43:22 +0200 To: Rahul Siddharthan , Joseph Scott From: Brad Knowles Subject: Re: No port of Opera? (Was: ((FreeBSD : Linux) :: (OS/2 : Windows))) Cc: Brett Glass , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 2:15 AM +0530 2000/7/8, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > I notice something similar about FreeBSD, though not quite so bad: it > ships with sendmail as the only MTA (in 3.x, anyway -- I still haven't > looked at 4.x, but hope to do so soon), but the freebsd.org mailserver > itself uses postfix. Isn't that a bit inconsistent? I don't think that this is really an issue of inconsistency. One thing that I believe they are working on for the future is to remove all full-blown MTAs (such as sendmail, postfix, qmail, etc...) from the base system, and to instead ship a program that would be just sufficient to handle the "null client" sort of configuration. Thus, for anyone who wants to run a real MTA, they go to the ports or pull down the source and build it themselves. So, what you see for the mail server for freebsd.org could be considered a sample of where FreeBSD is going in the future, it's just that they've chosen to use postfix as their "real" MTA. That said, there are a lot of improvements coming in sendmail, and there might be a chance in the not-to-distant future when a lot of people might start switching back to it. -- These are my opinions -- not to be taken as official Skynet policy ====================================================================== Brad Knowles, || Belgacom Skynet SA/NV Systems Architect, Mail/News/FTP/Proxy Admin || Rue Colonel Bourg, 124 Phone/Fax: +32-2-706.13.11/12.49 || B-1140 Brussels http://www.skynet.be || Belgium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message