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Date:      Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:32:16 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        yuri@rawbw.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?
Message-ID:  <20091026153216.d43de7da.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
In-Reply-To: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com>
References:  <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com>

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In response to Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>:

> It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail.
> 
> How many people actually use it? Very few.

Quite a lot.  In fact, anyone who properly installs FreeBSD as a server.

> Why isn't it moved to ports?

Because an MTA has traditionally been part of a POSIX system.

Besides, if it's not there, how are you going to send mail from things
like cron?

-- 
Bill Moran
http://www.potentialtech.com
http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/



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