Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:59:38 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: freebsd.arch@clogic.com.ua, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Sendmail deprecation ? Message-ID: <20171211195938.dxfji2pf2sq63my7@chittenden.org> In-Reply-To: <201712111451.vBBEpjIW081611@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <eeaa550f5b9f62d56dfc17d4f0a3b64d@clogic.com.ua> <201712111451.vBBEpjIW081611@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] > That's not really the question. The question is "why won't 'pkg install > sendmail' work for users that need it?" There are two technical reasons for > why a component is in base and two emotional / political. There's also a workflow issue. Receiving feedback from systems via email messages is quaint (albeit convenient for low numbers of systems). It's only has value for administrators who have a process setup that lets them consume this information or use the information as an audit log (??!!??). If someone has opted into this style of workflow, they're going to drop something off in sendmail.cf or whatever their MDA config file happens to be. +1 for deprecating this from base and giving people the choice to `pkg install sendmail`. For everyone else deploying large numbers of systems, this is tedious to rip out and yet-another-thing to explain as a requirement when operationalizing FreeBSD for production workloads. -sc -- Sean Chittenden [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTRIj1cp7k0J1oEx9ROvJ3BbC5eFgUCWi7jqgAKCRBOvJ3BbC5e Fil0AKCCzq3yXVNzAOpKigJLNx7QHL34GwCfUpcij3x7CzPXP5VLht/T7Ilsdt4= =ZkWP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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