Re: DragonFly mail agent (round two)

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthias Schmidt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> corecode@ announced his DragonFly mail agent in [1] as a small, simple
> and
> clean implementation of a mailer in the base.  The goal of dma was not
> to replace a feature complete MTA like sendmail or postfix.  The basic
> intention was to be able to deliver mails from cron, periodic etc to
> local users.
>
> I enhanced dma and added remote delivery and some other features needed
> for works-out-of-the-box and to keep users happy :)  The list of all
> features follows:
>
> - Local mail delivery with alias-support
> - Remote mail delivery either direct or via a smarthost
> - TLS/SSL and STARTTLS support for encrypted connections
> - virtualusers (address rewriting) support
> - SMTP authentication (currently only plain SMTP login)
> - Sendmail compatible command line options
> - IPv6 support
> - A nice man page (Thanks to swildner@)

Wow!

I haven't heard of dma, but I like the idea. I don't need sendmail on 
boxes other than the mail server. For all other boxes a local delivery 
is enough.

Does that mean we get rid of sendmail someday? I mean, it can always be 
installed from pkgsrc.

Next replace named/bind by a caching-only proxy. I don't see a reason to 
include a DNS server, but for example no web-server. Other examples are 
ntpd.

Regards,

  Michael