Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 19:54:44 +0100 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, wfdudley@gmail.com Subject: Re: Sendmail on 14-RELEASE Message-ID: <20231212195444.5b2f1b61.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20231212160938.470C67E25858@ary.qy> References: <CAFsnNZ%2Bntx9ho2GXrgnX8QSxUPDLbH%2BZ=sguLezPqje3jZyGVA@mail.gmail.com> <20231212160938.470C67E25858@ary.qy>
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On 12 Dec 2023 11:09:37 -0500, John Levine wrote: > If you do want to run a mail server, you probably want to use postfix > or exim so you don't have to deal with sendmail's antique and rococo > configuration system. Having sendmail preinstalled just gets in the > way. On the other hand, if you just want to use the system's mailer to run a "TLS relay", it is not needed to install and configure a full 3rd party mail server - initially sendmail does serve here quite well. On the other hand, can dma do this? I'm not really asking, instead I would install sendmail from ports if I needed that kind of software. But replacing one thing with another thing that cannot fully do what its decades-old predecessor could do just feels... strange, like the transition from sc to vt for the "text mode" terminal system... Still it is good to see a complex software being replaced with something simpler, it's easier to maintain it and to address bugs and security holes. At least that's the idea behind it. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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