Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 08:26:58 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.9 Message-ID: <E0yex5W-0000Cw-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Peter Wemm's message of "Wed, 27 May 1998 12:24:04 %2B0800" References: <199805270424.MAA00317@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> writes: > Before everybody jumps up and says "use xyzmail[er] instead" or "just > don't ship anything in the base", I'm not sure that we can do that as > parts of the base *assume* that sendmail (or a workalike) is present. VMailer, exim and smail all go to quite strong lengths to be sendmail compatible. In particular, I've been using exim for some time (over a year) as a sendmail replacement and found no faults. It's still GPL'd though. And there's still the massive body of sysadmin inertia that *knows* sendmail... Wouldn't it be easier to just stick with 8.8.8 until the licensing issues of this latest sendmail can be clarified? > Maybe it's time to bring back a basic local-only mail transport that gets > blown away when a real sendmail or comparable (qmail, smail, vmailer, > exim, etc etc) gets installed from a port. Sigh. That's certainly one solution; was one of these things used before? If so, where can I get a look at it? P.S. You left out MMDF. :-) -- "Every minute there's a UNIX system crashing somewhere." -- DJB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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