Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2019 22:55:33 +0100 From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: sendmail Message-ID: <20190630225533.1d07a8328a1aba45bd6735b5@sohara.org> In-Reply-To: <20190630195102.90e6e481.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAL2OhpoSxnK2Uy_OKxqnWyXuqg=tNBm6wy2r1%2BukVWwPnPrj0g@mail.gmail.com> <20190630092535.7913d305.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1906301549270.945@fbsd.local> <20190630195102.90e6e481.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 19:51:02 +0200 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 15:50:43 +0000 (UTC), Roderick wrote: > > > > On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Polytropon wrote: > > > > > The sendmail version included with FreeBSD ist primarily intended for > > > inter-program communication, log, and local notification. Users who > > > want to run "real mail" systems will probably install Postfix or Exim > > > anyway, > > > > And why not sendmail? Is it not real mail? > > It's a matter of preference. While many admins suggest using Postfix > or Exim, there are still lots of sendmail installations running, so There's one here, my incoming mail server runs sendmail, spamassassin, procmail and dovecot - it gets the job done. My outgoing server runs exim (it was easier to configure to talk to an authenticated relay some years back IIRC), it also gets the job done. > there is nothing bad per se regarding sendmail; it's probably the > convenience of configuration where sendmail is a bit... different. ;-) Quite so, sendmail.cf is a trifle unusual in syntax and the rewriting rules have been growing for decades and have become quite complex and hard to follow in places. -- Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>
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