From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 24 04:42:12 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13CCA16A417 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:42:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B769F13C455 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:42:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDESK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l8O4fnOD039097; Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Gabriel Dragffy" , Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:42:09 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1896 In-Reply-To: <6CBE22B2-206F-4695-889F-5630E6B9399C@dragffy.com> Importance: Normal Cc: Subject: RE: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:42:12 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Gabriel Dragffy > Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2007 3:56 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD? > > > 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, Wrong. Most people who have POSTED consider Postfix/Exim better than sendmail. This is not at all any kind of scientific or accurate poll. You might consider also that Postfix is under the IBM license which has an "advertising clause" that is incompatible with the Berkeley/ FreeBSD license that FreeBSD is under - and EXIM is under the GPL which is utterly and totally incompatible with the FreeBSD/Berkeley license and would probably cause problems for commercial users of FreeBSD. Ted