Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:32:13 +0000 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: Julio Merino <jmmv@freebsd.org>, "current@freebsd.org Current" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent Message-ID: <DC50F5AD-995D-4F8A-9EBD-4E6867282992@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20140224073418.GX1699@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20140223211155.GS1699@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <CAFY7cWBh0ThajQpK4wZYj0wPrhTL608wtNDQNvOLnryjp4_jCg@mail.gmail.com> <20140224073418.GX1699@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On 24 Feb 2014, at 07:34, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > Usual complains about sendmail in base until now has been: > - complex configuration > - long history of security concerns > - no need for a full mta in base The other complaint is that sendmail is only half of a useable MTA in = base. If you actually want to use it for anything other than local = delivery, then you need to turn on authentication, which means = installing the saslauthd port and then recompiling sendmail from source. = As soon as you do a freebsd-update, email stops working and you need to = recompile sendmail again, meaning that you can't get binary security = updates for one of the parts of the system with the worst security = record. I would love to have something in the base system that can handle mail = delivery and authenticated relaying out of the box. OpenBSD now ships = with osmpd, which seems to work quite well for this, and if dma can as = well then I'm very much in favour of it. David
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