From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 9 14:41:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from modemcable127.61-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net (modemcable127.61-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.net [24.201.61.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0DA237B860 for ; Sun, 9 Apr 2000 14:41:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patrick@mindstep.com) Received: (qmail 18895 invoked from network); 9 Apr 2000 21:41:18 -0000 Received: from patrak.local.mindstep.com (HELO PATRAK) (192.168.10.4) by jacuzzi.local.mindstep.com with SMTP; 9 Apr 2000 21:41:18 -0000 Message-ID: <14be01bfa26c$361e3420$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> From: "Patrick Bihan-Faou" To: Cc: References: <143f01bfa253$a130abd0$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> <20000409141112.A1252@dragon.nuxi.com> Subject: Re: Integrating QMAIL in the world Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:40:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "David O'Brien" > On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 02:44:25PM -0400, Patrick Bihan-Faou wrote: > > I have integrated the source of qmail so it can be built as part of the > > "world". I think that it would be nice to have an alternative for the mailer > > package to be built as part of a make world. > ... > > Is there any interest in that kind of work ? > > I'd say probably not. > > Peter Wemm is working on kicking Sendmail out of the base system and > replacing it with a very simple piece that can do local mail delivery and > outgoing SMTP to a relay host -- these are the minimal operational > requirements. > > Then people that are running a mail server could install either the > Sendmail, Postfix, Qmail, Zmail, etc... MTA ports. > Sounds like a great idea. The reason why I am doing this is because I DONT want sendmail. The solution that is being implemented sounds like the best way to approach this. Thread closed ? Patrick. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message