Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

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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