From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 26 19:40:59 2009 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 A745C106568D for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:40:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BE98FC19 for ; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55108EB46FD; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:40:58 +0200 (EET) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 448F0451B2; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:40:58 +0200 (EET) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OLlQM+4bZVk0; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:40:58 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp-94-64-232-242.home.otenet.gr [94.64.232.242]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBC6450C6; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:40:58 +0200 (EET) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n9QJeumR028402 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:40:57 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n9QJetpo028401; Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:40:55 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: yuri@rawbw.com References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:40:55 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> (yuri@rawbw.com's message of "Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:27 -0700") Message-ID: <87ws2i0wqg.fsf@kobe.laptop> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? 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, 26 Oct 2009 19:40:59 -0000 On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:27 -0700, Yuri wrote: > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. > Why isn't it moved to ports? This questions comes up very often. You can find lots of reasons in one of the older threads about Sendmail, e.g. at: http://groups.google.com/group/fa.freebsd.stable/msg/166040f2d75547bc http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.chat/msg/a9e850da1dba3fc2 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/msg/39f14b08bb752ca7 http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.current/msg/3b73a04c9f5e6a19 Sendmail is _already_ part of the ports/ BTW, and it supports many knobs to build custom versions of Sendmail with or without IPv6, milter, NIS, SASL, TLS or LDAP support, and so on: keramida@kobe:/usr/ports/mail$ more sendmail/Makefile [...] # Options to define Features: # SENDMAIL_WITHOUT_IPV6=yes # SENDMAIL_WITHOUT_MILTER=yes # SENDMAIL_WITHOUT_NIS=yes [...]