Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 23:56:30 +0100 From: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent Message-ID: <200901082356.30409.talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <20090108170203.GA17130@soaustin.net> References: <20090108164810.GA43169@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <20090108170203.GA17130@soaustin.net>
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Le jeudi 08 janvier 2009, vous avez =E9crit=A0: > On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:48:10PM +0100, Michel Talon wrote: > > This mail agent doesn't offer anything compelling compared to sendmail, > > only it is much smaller and presumably more secure. > > I have previously seen it advocated for base as an alternative for > systems that e.g. only need to send cronmail. > > mcl I am using DragonFly mail agent on some jails since a few months and it wor= ks=20 OK. Hence dma.tgz compiles out of the box and works as advertised on FreeBS= D. I can give some information on the configuration: this shows the simplicity= of the configuration file. jail1% cat /etc/dma/dma.conf # $DragonFly: src/etc/dma/dma.conf,v 1.2 2008-02-04 10:11:41 matthias Exp $ # # Your smarthost (also called relayhost). Leave blank if you don't want # smarthost support. Here i take the base host as smarthost SMARTHOST niobe # Use this SMTP port. Most users will be fine with the default (25) PORT 25 # Path to your alias file. Note it reads aliases, not aliases.db. Same fil= e =20 # as sendmail aliases. ALIASES /etc/mail/aliases # Path to your spooldir. Just stay with the default. SPOOLDIR /var/spool/dma # Path to your virtual user file. Just stay with the default. VIRTPATH /etc/dma/virtusertable To deliver local mail it seems that dma needs to be suid root: jail1% ls -l /usr/libexec/sendmail/dma =2Dr-sr-sr-x 1 root mail 42904 Aug 20 00:45 /usr/libexec/sendmail/dma The spool directory is drwxrwxr-x 2 root mail 2 Jan 8 03:05 dma
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