Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

[Martin P. Hellwig]

Oliver Fromme wrote:
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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), so delivery of mails
from local cron jobs will work if no real MTA -- be it
sendmail, postfix, exim, whatever -- has been installed
from pkgsrc.  If locally generated mails need to be sent
to a mail server (this is what sendmail calls a "null
client"), no fully-fledged MTA is required either:  a
simple and secure SMTP client (such as ssmtp) can be used.
Just my 2 cents.  YMMV.

Best regards
   Oliver
Although I really like sendmail, I would agree with this.

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