Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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