From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 22 20:30:19 2010 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 85C961065670 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amijaresp@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f223.google.com (mail-ew0-f223.google.com [209.85.219.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 195448FC14 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy23 with SMTP id 23so880319ewy.34 for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:30:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=zDf2zRaDh04BT/lbBBScAfyZQWrI72FpKURaF5Acpi8=; b=h0UxRMHED4kInD7Bu49E89YFULmOTdPgEmqoNoDBkDA0Qo/WL9MCaP5FibOUO1n8I2 6LWGh/JMPD58jVgrqyRi6fWAwvrgIks+iaqmRfUq7PJhpm77EKYJuBa6ZIo56JgWaKia 8NarNDQB9m9KZg3F51U9JQOMpkBk2Fnpy5Pmc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=OPGnlnBjIr6tkE0yRLidI8tcMpw2AhMxiiYlnNXiqt9Z3vsbqaWxlg1dv2Vwctameg 6EwnO4AK9mugFAABwnA957NdcvQzLF7rAENFlbZvmfZ4/2fS2HS/UuEsAZZF7jhyXWin I+Lz61OtGJllbRal7sSDSklK6geXR9KzhWyrw= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.193.84 with SMTP id h20mr268471hbi.8.1269289817812; Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:30:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <3352047511-2078122571@intranet.com.mx> <86vdcp9r57.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <20100322083450.GA77075@ei.bzerk.org> <86aau0a3gy.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> <20100322193339.GB80072@ei.bzerk.org> Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:00:17 -0430 Message-ID: <286906751003221330k4851a69et4365577195bda8cd@mail.gmail.com> From: Alberto Mijares To: Alejandro Imass Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spamassasin, sendmail, Postfix 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, 22 Mar 2010 20:30:19 -0000 > Anyway, my point is that an Operating System should not impose a > specific MTA by default, and let the installer chose their favorite > MTA. From what I understand you can't even remove Sendmail from > standard FBSD and must only be de-activated. I personally think that > sucks (if it's true anyway). Note that it is not my intention to start > a flame MTA-war here. I think that Sendmail is exclellent if you like > it, but Postfix is excellent as well, and we should be eventually able > to install FBSD with Postfix as default MTA. I could be wrong, but I think you can build the world without sendmail passing the propper flags to make. In the other hand, sendmail is a piece of the operative system; so you could end up with some broken features. There are some other apps that belong to the OS as well, like bind9 for DNS, sh and csh for the shell and so on... It would be very difficult to let the user choose their favorite applications in an OS install. As I see it, FreeBSD is, in fact, a DNS server or a mail server by default, between others and if I want. And since Postfix has some limitations vs. Sendmail, I'm glad that is sendmail the choice of FreeBSD. I also must say that I frecuently use Postfix for Mail Servers, if I don't need exotic features. My point is that Sendmail doesn't hurt anyone as part of the FreeBSD Operative System; unlike some Linux based distros, which really impose default MTA's without the need. Best regards. Alberto Mijares