Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 22:03:33 -0500 From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: <jim@luna.cdrom.com> Cc: <ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: sendmail missing? Message-ID: <001601bfaff5$2d04c980$8dfee0d1@westbend.net> References: <20000426175928.C78347@luna.cdrom.com> <200004270138.SAA00612@freeway.dcfinc.com> <20000426193514.A474@luna.cdrom.com>
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From: "Jim Mock" <jim@luna.cdrom.com> > On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 at 18:38:02 -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > As I recall, Jim Mock wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 at 17:42:11 -0700, Chad R. Larson wrote: > > > > This may have already been discussed on some other list, but I'm > > > > surprised to find sendmail has gone missing from the ports > > > > collection. > > > > > But if so, why isn't it? We've got ports for things like Adobe > > Acrobat, which only fetch and install a binary. We surely could fetch > > and build sendmail from Sendmail.org. > There was talk on creating a sendmail port on the current list last year, when it was proposed that sendmail be replaced with postfix(?). There is no reason not to have a port for sendmail as it allows us to use the latest version, while we wait for it to get imported into base system. Check the PR database to see if someone has cobbled together a sendmail port, if not see if you can create one and submit it to the ports collection. > There's no real reason to have the same version of sendmail available in > the base system as in the ports tree. I do think, however, that if > there are beta versions of sendmail available, a port of it is > reasonable for the simple fact that the source tree has the latest > 'stable' version of it even though some people would want newer betas. > Then again, there's no reason why you can't compile sendmail from source > since it works just fine ;-) > The latest release of Sendmail is 8.10.1, while in stable & current we have 8.9.3. Some one should put together a port of Sendmail 8.10, with optional support on the security/cyrus-sasl port (Adds AUTH capability to Sendmail). Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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