Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:28:54 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>, 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: <3A8E0C16.CB2477C@softweyr.com> References: <65962.982365980@axl.fw.uunet.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn wrote:
>
> 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.
Having SOME MTA selected in the default settings, with "None" as option,
would probably suffice. I don't have strong feelings about what the
default should be, as long as it's not encumbered. Sendmail or Postfix
should suffice.
It'd be great if it were configured to actually deliver mail, too.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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