From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 1 13:32:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313D316A4E0 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:32:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from obrieng@nm.cbc.ca) Received: from mail02.nm.cbc.ca (mail02.nm.cbc.ca [159.33.1.172]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF70A43D4C for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 13:31:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrieng@nm.cbc.ca) Received: from hub.cbc.ca (hub.nm.cbc.ca [192.168.1.119]) by mail02.nm.cbc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1BBB274469 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:31:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.cbc.ca [127.0.0.1]) by hub.cbc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8F7F6A47D for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:31:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hub.cbc.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hub.cbc.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 78042-01-20 for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:31:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [1.151.32.16] (intd.cbc.ca [159.33.1.75]) by hub.cbc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id A562E6A47A for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:31:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44F8361A.8020507@nm.cbc.ca> Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:31:06 -0400 From: Gabriel O'Brien User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060828) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD User List References: <20060901115424.GA63532@medea.martinmoeller.homeip.net> <20060901125631.GA92179@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20060901125631.GA92179@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.cbc.ca Subject: Re: Why sendmail? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:32:22 -0000 Erik Trulsson wrote: > For those people who prefer to use some other MTA it is not difficult to > install one from ports and use it instead of Sendmail. Indeed. While I do sometimes question the sense of defaulting to sendmail due to its baggage, it's so trivial to change the MTA that it's largely a non-issue. In the interest of being close to a "reference implementation" of BSD it does make some sense as a default even if I'd never run it on a prod box myself. It hardly seems worth the churn. Insert $0.02 here. cheers, Gabriel -- Gabriel O'Brien IT Analyst, MPS-EN-CBC.ca w: 416-205-8740 m: 416-996-5679