Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

Wed Jun 14 03:05:56 PDT 2006

On 14.06.2006, at 11:16, Rob Andrews wrote:
HOWEVER:  If someone wants to remove the MTA entirely from the base
system (i.e. not replacing it with another one), then I support that.
It should be possible to move sendmail to pkgsrc (I think it's already
there), and only leave a simple local delivery agent in the base
system (something like mail.local), ... [snip]
I agree totally with this. I've wondered for a while why the mailer is
in the base system, and this way there's less effort in deactivating 
the
base system mailer when installing a preferred mailer from pkgsrc.
We will keep sendmail.  Everyone who does not want sendmail can disable 
it with NO_SENDMAIL=yes in make.conf.  Everyone who wants $mailer can 
install it from pkgsrc and just adjust /etc/mail/mailer.conf.

A complete mail server is part of an operating system like lpr, ntp, 
dhcpd, ftpd, sshd and all the other things we ship.

cheers
  simon
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