From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 31 23:29:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13283 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:29:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13260; Thu, 31 Dec 1998 23:29:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA04656; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 02:22:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 02:22:44 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Mike Smith cc: "Jonathan M. Bresler" , mark@grondar.za, dcs@newsguy.com, alexandr@mail.eecis.udel.eud, committers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Postfix is coming. new uid, gid required. In-Reply-To: <199812312006.MAA01368@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > what if no one else likes postfix. > > > > postfix is coming into the tree as /usr/src/contrib. > > sendmail is the default mail transfer agent. > > individual users can switch either machines to use postfix as > > the mta. > > there is no intention of removing sendmail from the tree. > > This clearly demonstrates that there is no mandate, nor no technical > justification for bringing postfix in. Please make a port of it and > stay with convention. > > Now is not a good time for a -core member to be demonstrating personal > bias over established convention with regards to the FreeBSD source tree. Mike may be right, essentially, but it's too darn bad. Jon is extremely qualified to tell what a good mailer is, he's been in a unique position both to test *and* to benchmark the heck out of a mailer, he's found a mailer that is a huge improvement over sendmail in more ways than I care to list here and avoids future license problems, but politics isn't going to let this happen. Mike may be right, but it's depressing just the same. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message