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Date:      Mon, 24 Feb 2014 08:42:36 +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:  <1C9C5D61-493D-419D-9FCC-FFA1C10B3748@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140224083502.GY1699@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On 24 Feb 2014, at 08:35, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote:

> dma can exactly do that :) while being smaller than opensmtpd (which =
is very
> very nice as well, this is the one I use when I need a full smtp setup =
:))

Sounds excellent then.  We definitely should be moving to a world where =
all of the base system services are compartmentalised with capsicum and =
given the attack surface and complex security requirements of an MTA, it =
sounds like it would be an excellent idea.  If you're willing to do the =
work then that's excellent (and makes you the de-facto winner of any =
resulting bikeshed)!

It would be good to have it merged to 10 for 10.2 so that people can =
play with it early.  If we decide to switch for 11, then it would also =
be a good idea to teach the upgrade process how to recognise non-default =
sendmail configurations (or, at least, ask the question), move them to =
/usr/local, and install a sendmail port, so that people who want to be =
using it will keep doing so.  I'm only using sendmail because I learned =
just enough of the config file syntax to do what I wanted 10 or so years =
ago and then I had a working config and never overcame the inertia =
required to switch - a clean and modern replacement in base would give =
me the right incentive!

David




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