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Subject: Re: RFC: Sendmail deprecation ?
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On 12 Dec, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 11, 2017, at 7:11 PM, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> mail/sendmail has been available as a port since 2000.
> 
> But that port reportedly doesn't have the FreeBSD configuration files
> that we have in base.  You'd be pushing the burden of maintaining them
> onto the ports maintainer, making sure they work on all supported
> branches; they may not want that responsibility.

I haven't played with the port, but it may well be looking for the
existing config files in /etc and not look in ${LOCALBASE}/etc at all.
If that is the case, then if you modify the port to look in
${LOCALBASE}/etc, you'll break things for everybody who currently uses
the port.  If you try to limit that problem by having the port look at
${LOCALBASE}/etc only for FreeBSD versions where sendmail is removed
from base, it complicates the port and the transition will still be
messy for anyone who is using the binary packages that we distribute.