From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 20:23:23 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 290F1106566C for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:23:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gesbbb@yahoo.com) Received: from web32102.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32102.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.116]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D18688FC16 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:23:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gesbbb@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 38777 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Jan 2009 19:56:42 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=KZ4Eu5jjFr2HvtZKN1Sb7auZ7U5/czHfA7IPhEGLYZ0S9f7MPQH50tT3mo7vcI9RVFlA/Yy6x8HZAxYl95JYroShVo3ycqBEpK5AX9aMlLTGfDkEyIK1ziaP69Hwq2KXyfrs4huTvT4hF01UcEa2vc31WMMRwTChHGrNGKp4soc=; X-YMail-OSG: 2b2nQoIVM1lQdsrSgeTtRaPm0xrb1FFOMRc8Hw_JGFI9mwbbN3gm7UVQoiCgR6L0F7YTzNB7edZgKFpyn91XCjeR9ga.9r7SrXpZUeep.EwyOoBY763qBlRw12V2GV4uT6lfVV_4YtLjgIljobfK8w_Pf5QYjhjIrS5yazUDEev3bcyi8p3EWQqwQMaEDmN.vTVm9EohFBSSOFy3CkzyHN9r6nZW Received: from [76.23.177.172] by web32102.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 11:56:42 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1156.77 YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 References: <20090108140855.GA34257@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200901091657.30692.gnemmi@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 11:56:42 -0800 (PST) From: GESBBB To: FreeBSD Users Questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <170012.33869.qm@web32102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent 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, 09 Jan 2009 20:23:23 -0000 > From: Gonzalo Nemmi gnemmi@gmail.com > On Thursday 08 January 2009 12:08:55 pm Michel Talon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > would it not be interesting to have the DragonFlyBSD mail agent in > > FreeBSD? It is a very simple mail agent, like ssmtp, but with some more > > features: it can either deliver mail locally for local users or send all > > other mail to a smarthost, and reads the aliases file. Hence it fulfills > > the needs of the person who wants a small mail agent for receiving > > periodic root mail, and wants to send the occasional without too much > > fuss. It is much simpler than sendmail, postfix or exim. > > > > For simplicity i have a tarball here: > > http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/dma.tgz > > it compiles out of the box, and it is easy to figure out how to use it. > > I second that .. Sendmail has turned into an unnecesary behemont for a local > MTA .. dma is a lot smaller, simpler, easier to maintain, a lot less bug > prone, way easier to configure and all in all, just what I need if my MTA > only job will be delivering local mail ... Sendmail feels like having a > HUMMER only to take my kids to school and then get back to my home .. which > is only two blocks away ... :s > > It would be really nice if I could choose whether I want Sendmail, Postfix or > dma upon installation time (sysinstall) ... You can all ready choose if your want Postfix or SendMail when installing. IMHO, Postfix is a far superior MTA anyway. -- Gerard gesbbb@yahoo.com