Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:32:16 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> To: yuri@rawbw.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? Message-ID: <20091026153216.d43de7da.wmoran@potentialtech.com> In-Reply-To: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com>
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In response to Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>: > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. Quite a lot. In fact, anyone who properly installs FreeBSD as a server. > Why isn't it moved to ports? Because an MTA has traditionally been part of a POSIX system. Besides, if it's not there, how are you going to send mail from things like cron? -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/
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