From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 27 19:33:59 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 71C5C1065676 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:33:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lars@larseighner.com) Received: from mail.team1internet.com (mail.team1internet.com [216.110.13.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DCED8FC0C for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:33:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix, from userid 12346) id C7DB716B54D; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:33:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: from larseighner.com (unknown [216.110.13.78]) by mail.team1internet.com (Postfix) with SMTP id BDE4816B4FE; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:33:56 -0500 (CDT) Received: by larseighner.com (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1001 lars@larseighner.com; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:25:12 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:25:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Eighner X-X-Sender: lars@debranded.6dollardialup.com To: utisoft@gmail.com In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20091027142502.Q91143@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> <200910270916.31033.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <20091027021723.M88213@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Sanitizer: Anomy and SpamAssassin mail filter - see http://www.6dollardialup.com/support/spaminfo.html Cc: Jonathan McKeown , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 19:33:59 -0000 On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/10/27 Lars Eighner : >> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Jonathan McKeown wrote: >> >>> On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote: >>>> >>>> It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. >>>> >>>> How many people actually use it? Very few. >>>> Why isn't it moved to ports? >>> >>> What is this anti-sendmail obsession people have? >> >> The configuration is opaque, to put it kindly. >> > > Are you talking about sendmail.m4 or sendmail.cf? Because we stopped > editing sendmail.cf by hand years ago..... Then what are "we" using to edit sendmail.cf? The man page doesn't seem to be et up with verbosity on the subject. Let me guess: a gnome GUI? -- Lars Eighner http://www.larseighner.com/index.html 8800 N IH35 APT 1191 AUSTIN TX 78753-5266