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Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system


From: Rob Andrews <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:16:59 +0100

On 14-Jun-2006 09:22.55 (BST), Oliver Fromme 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.

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