Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 21:41:27 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Dom Mitchell <dom@myrddin.demon.co.uk> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail 8.9 Message-ID: <199805281341.VAA08110@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 May 1998 08:26:58 %2B0100." <E0yex5W-0000Cw-00.qmail@myrddin.demon.co.uk>
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Dom Mitchell wrote: > Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> writes: > > Before everybody jumps up and says "use xyzmail[er] instead" or "just > > don't ship anything in the base", I'm not sure that we can do that as > > parts of the base *assume* that sendmail (or a workalike) is present. > > VMailer, exim and smail all go to quite strong lengths to be sendmail > compatible. In particular, I've been using exim for some time (over a > year) as a sendmail replacement and found no faults. It's still GPL'd > though. > > And there's still the massive body of sysadmin inertia that *knows* > sendmail... Yes... Sendmail, for all it's warts, is pretty much a known quantity. > Wouldn't it be easier to just stick with 8.8.8 until the licensing > issues of this latest sendmail can be clarified? Yes, that's pretty much what is happening by default. I have asked the sendmail people twice now about this and still have got no response. I might try sending by fax next. I find it quite ironic that people setting up to sell sendmail don't have a handle on email. > > Maybe it's time to bring back a basic local-only mail transport that gets > > blown away when a real sendmail or comparable (qmail, smail, vmailer, > > exim, etc etc) gets installed from a port. Sigh. > > That's certainly one solution; was one of these things used before? > If so, where can I get a look at it? > > P.S. You left out MMDF. :-) MMDF can go away and die. I've wasted too much of my life fighting MMDF (and often loosing).. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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