Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 10:49:44 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: mark thompson <thompson@squirrel.tgsoft.com> Cc: proff@suburbia.net, hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail in 2.2 Message-ID: <E0wEHc1-0000aO-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "06 Apr 1997 14:14:22 -0000." <19970406141422.2872.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> References: <19970406141422.2872.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com>
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In message <19970406141422.2872.qmail@squirrel.tgsoft.com> mark thompson writes: : an optional MTA for freebsd (if it can't be the default). Admittedly, : you have to do things 'differently' with qmail, but arguably, the : 'different' way is the way it should always have been. And there is also a port of exim, which does things better than sendmail that I run locally. Works great. The only problem that I have is to remember to disbale sendmail after a make world. That's the biggest impediment right now to these things: they all seem to want to install a /sur/sbin/sendmail emulator so that all the programs on the system will go through their queueing mechanism rather than sendmails (and so you can do a chmod 0 sendmail to make it safe too :-). A long time ago people said they were doing work to make qmail *A* MTA for freebsd. what ever happened to that. I think that it would be a fine thing to allow people to easily change MTAs so that we can get an isntalled base of alternative mailers so we know the problems that using them has on a large scale. Just like the 2.2.x release we thought we had something stable and when it hit the field lots of nits cropped up, so too I fear that if we make any chagnes to the base system before at least some testing similar things might pop up. Warner
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