Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:05:53 +0300 From: Alex Keda <admin@lissyara.su> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent Message-ID: <4967BC31.5040305@lissyara.su> In-Reply-To: <200901091657.30692.gnemmi@gmail.com> References: <20090108140855.GA34257@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200901091657.30692.gnemmi@gmail.com>
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Gonzalo Nemmi пишет: > 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) ... Or exim =)
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