Date: 12 Dec 2023 14:56:39 -0500 From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd@edvax.de Subject: Re: DMA, not Sendmail on 14-RELEASE Message-ID: <20231212195639.AF1A17E28322@ary.local> In-Reply-To: <20231212195444.5b2f1b61.freebsd@edvax.de>
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It appears that Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> said: >On 12 Dec 2023 11:09:37 -0500, John Levine wrote: >> If you do want to run a mail server, you probably want to use postfix >> or exim so you don't have to deal with sendmail's antique and rococo >> configuration system. Having sendmail preinstalled just gets in the >> way. > >On the other hand, if you just want to use the system's >mailer to run a "TLS relay", it is not needed to install >and configure a full 3rd party mail server - initially >sendmail does serve here quite well. On the other hand, >can dma do this? Yes, of course. DMA relays to a smarthost and can use TLS to the smarthost's port 587, 465, or I suppose 25. I'm not really asking, instead I would >install sendmail from ports if I needed that kind of >software. But why? DMA Is already there and does what you want. R's, John
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