From owner-freebsd-current Thu Oct 12 8:31:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from bsdconspiracy.net (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BC3037B66C for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:31:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zaphod.softweyr.com ([204.68.178.35] helo=softweyr.com ident=wes) by bsdconspiracy.net with esmtp (Exim 3.14 #1) id 13jkHw-0006fN-00; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:28:56 -0700 Message-ID: <368DD68D.8381D426@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 01:19:25 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Fumerola Cc: dannyman , "Brandon D. Valentine" , "attila!" , Peter van Dijk , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: POSTFIX-- Wietse: tweak and go! --pkg & port: both duds References: <20001009003730.A75DA1C2AB@hun.org> <20001011153441.B27786@dell.dannyland.org> <20001011183950.E38472@jade.chc-chimes.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Fumerola wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 03:34:42PM -0700, dannyman wrote: > > > I am a Postfix weenie. I don't care what the "default" MTA that comes with > > FreeBSD is, but I like that 4.x is better at giving you a choice in the > > matter. If someone wanted to maintain Postfix in the FreeBSD source tree as > > an alternative to Sendmail, I don't see what's wrong with that ... same for > > Qmail and the like. The main objection I would seis that you're then bloating > > FreeBSD's source tree with every MTA known to man. The answer? Jihad? Or > > make EVERY MTA an option for the base system? Or just do as has been done for > > time immemorial and leave Sendmail where it has always been ... :) > > For the hundred millionth time, the right way to do all of this is in the > "everything is a package" approach, which everyone agrees is the right answer, > but no one has turned out code to do yet. Yes! Yes! Yes! -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message