Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 16:57:30 -0200 From: Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi@gmail.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent Message-ID: <200901091657.30692.gnemmi@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090108140855.GA34257@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20090108140855.GA34257@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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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) ... Regards -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi
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