[issue1662] RFE: Change MTA in base system from Sendmail to Postfix.

Steve O'Hara-Smith steve at sohara.org
Mon Jan 25 03:31:04 PST 2010


	Hi,

	It likely makes more sense to remove sendmail from the base and
make dma the default MTA since this should satsify most needs for an MTA,
and leave anyone wanting a more powerful MTA free rein.

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:21:14 +0000
"Edward O'Callaghan \(via DragonFly issue tracker\)"
<sinknull at leaf.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:

> 
> New submission from Edward O'Callaghan <eocallaghan at auroraux.org>:
> 
> Many have changed from hard to configure and buggy Sendmail to Postfix
> including NetBSD (Since 4.0), GNU/Linux etc..
> 
> Perhaps its time we follow suit.
> I am sure this is open to all sorts of debate however I thought I would
> bring it up to see what others have to say?
> Its worth nothing that postfix has a sendmail wrapper.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_(software)
> 
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> nosy: eocallaghan
> priority: wish
> status: unread
> title: RFE: Change MTA in base system from Sendmail to Postfix.
> 
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