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Date:      Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:42:37 +0000
From:      Mayuresh Kathe <mayuresh@kathe.in>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   freebsd packages going the debian way!
Message-ID:  <c9c745f73af795583f1cdb568b68eef6@kathe.in>

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i have been tinkering around with mailing system options under freebsd
and have found most of the options are dependent on entire unnecessary
bloated external components.
eg.;
- fetchmail depends on python, why?
- nmh depends on curl and libhttp, why?
- getmail depends on python + python config suite, why?

somehow, freebsd packages seem to be going the debian way, why?

i am willing to abandon "nmh" and be happy with mailx, but how do i get
my remote emails onto my local system without having to install a 
bloated
fetchmail package which depends on an entire python programming system?

btw, the stock sendmail seems nicely minimalistic, good to know.



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