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Date:      Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:26:20 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: List of things to move from main tree to ports (was Re: Wish List (was: Re: The /usr/bin/games bikeshed again)) 
Message-ID:  <65962.982365980@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:34:37 PST." <200102161835.f1GIZOB29603@cwsys.cwsent.com> 

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On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 10:34:37 PST, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:

> Please move Sendmail to ports.  People should have a choice of which 
> MTA they want to use.  Sendmail should not have any special status when 
> compared to other MTA's in ports.  Qmail and postfix are quite popular 
> too and they are in ports.

You can't move sendmail out of the base system (even if you get
consensus) until someone does the work involved in ensuring that, unless
the admin clearly doesn't want one, she'll get _some_ MTA with a default
install.

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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