From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 27 18:03:03 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A4F7106566C for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:03:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com (mail-qy0-f176.google.com [209.85.221.176]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B19028FC1B for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk6 with SMTP id 6so246113qyk.3 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:03:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=UCDuyVNh1ARRbFWkWZWVSRt/9TUWmpo6y278KdyvfVY=; b=qVarAtSzga2DcpjGJZiZ9YtUEMDJECXsefy2nGhYNQxMs2YUJwFMl7r9qI5YKGe6y8 g2YVRBuIdhUGevYhfBUuiA1VcliQC4CrCwk2aY9PixHnueXWh1a/jR7WjxEwgvTPUW/1 Rxt66FcodAtu8FFdBm8M6PTTyd3I+X1N9jQd8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=rrX32QZ5tyiyeKKEvUepP/XoyEUyUZsOXdM5+Wm13zOrFnbHGM54VbmH8vJpRWdBjz Pi/2eP0qfh7uYPtU4TJgLj2qvM2QKXKqnEin8UOGA740JnSMys8/1lC3svybbUnrQ9qM Sn6EOlkNwJ2KRDu+gOX1vVzOyu+N1B1pfteng= Received: by 10.224.96.81 with SMTP id g17mr8626825qan.265.1256666581301; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:03:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ([190.177.192.217]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm72053ywf.20.2009.10.27.11.02.59 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:03:00 -0700 (PDT) From: Gonzalo Nemmi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:02:57 -0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> <200910270106.n9R16lGb095725@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> In-Reply-To: <200910270106.n9R16lGb095725@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200910271602.57596.gnemmi@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:03:03 -0000 On Monday 26 October 2009 11:06:47 pm Olivier Nicole wrote: > > How many people actually use it? Very few. > > Out of the 12 or 15 servers I run, only one do not use stock > sendmail: the mail server. So one out of twelve is rather quite a > lot... Let me get this .. are you saying that out of 12 server, 11 run sendmail as a local mailer and that the only server that runs a mail server (the one that conects to the outside world) uses "other" MTA? I'm asking honestly .. see, the OP question is really hard to answer ... It is a fact that every "default" install, and only a "default" install .. because sysinstall gives you the chance to install other MTAs, of FreeBSD install uses Sendmail .. but there's absolutely no relation between that and number of people who actually uses it as their mail server of choice to face the internet ... Of course every FreeBSD "default" install uses Sendmail as a local mailer, but that doesn't account for "How many people actually use it?" .. It only says that every FreeBSD "default" install uses Sendmail as a local mailer but no more than that :s Best Regards Gonzalo Nemmi