Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 11:59:38 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: freebsd.arch@clogic.com.ua, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Sendmail deprecation ? Message-ID: <20171211195938.dxfji2pf2sq63my7@chittenden.org> In-Reply-To: <201712111451.vBBEpjIW081611@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <eeaa550f5b9f62d56dfc17d4f0a3b64d@clogic.com.ua> <201712111451.vBBEpjIW081611@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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--aevwyz7tynjkpmnv Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > That's not really the question. The question is "why won't 'pkg install > sendmail' work for users that need it?" There are two technical reasons f= or > why a component is in base and two emotional / political. There's also a workflow issue. Receiving feedback from systems via email messages is quaint (albeit convenient for low numbers of systems). It's on= ly has value for administrators who have a process setup that lets them consume this information or use the information as an audit log (??!!??). If someo= ne has opted into this style of workflow, they're going to drop something off = in sendmail.cf or whatever their MDA config file happens to be. +1 for deprecating this from base and giving people the choice to `pkg inst= all sendmail`. For everyone else deploying large numbers of systems, this is tedious to rip out and yet-another-thing to explain as a requirement when operationalizing FreeBSD for production workloads. -sc --=20 Sean Chittenden --aevwyz7tynjkpmnv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQTRIj1cp7k0J1oEx9ROvJ3BbC5eFgUCWi7jqgAKCRBOvJ3BbC5e Fil0AKCCzq3yXVNzAOpKigJLNx7QHL34GwCfUpcij3x7CzPXP5VLht/T7Ilsdt4= =ZkWP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --aevwyz7tynjkpmnv--
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