Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

[elekktretterr at exemail.com.au]

So can anyone summerize the pros and cons of sendmail/postfix?

I personally don't see any advantage in using sendmail instead of postfix
other than "its been in BSD for years". However, I do see advantage in
Postfix. In my opinion main.cf/master.cf is much easier and easy to read
by anyone.

> 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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