Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:40:55 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> 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: <87ws2i0wqg.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> (yuri@rawbw.com's message of "Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:27 -0700") References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com>
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On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:27 -0700, Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> wrote: > It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. > > How many people actually use it? Very few. > Why isn't it moved to ports? This questions comes up very often. You can find lots of reasons in one of the older threads about Sendmail, e.g. at: http://groups.google.com/group/fa.freebsd.stable/msg/166040f2d75547bc http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.chat/msg/a9e850da1dba3fc2 http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc/msg/39f14b08bb752ca7 http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.current/msg/3b73a04c9f5e6a19 Sendmail is _already_ part of the ports/ BTW, and it supports many knobs to build custom versions of Sendmail with or without IPv6, milter, NIS, SASL, TLS or LDAP support, and so on: keramida@kobe:/usr/ports/mail$ more sendmail/Makefile [...] # Options to define Features: # SENDMAIL_WITHOUT_IPV6=yes # SENDMAIL_WITHOUT_MILTER=yes # SENDMAIL_WITHOUT_NIS=yes [...]
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