Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:27:39 +0100 From: Ruben de Groot <mail25@bzerk.org> To: Erik Norgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? Message-ID: <20091029182739.GA22923@ei.bzerk.org> In-Reply-To: <4AE9D708.2010900@locolomo.org> References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> <200910271703.12828.gnemmi@gmail.com> <20091027213134.GA85815@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <200910272046.00289.gnemmi@gmail.com> <20091028021417.GA93608@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <57d710000910271930u79b618f6m2bae6cf5c3c8fa83@mail.gmail.com> <4AE94914.2090905@locolomo.org> <877hue9o93.fsf@kobe.laptop> <4AE9D708.2010900@locolomo.org>
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On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:55:20PM +0100, Erik Norgaard typed: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > I don't argue for a replacement but for the elimination. Install a port > if you need an MTA, you're happy with that way for so many other > standard services. Isn't this going a little too far? What other posix systems ship whith no default MTA at all? Not many I would say. > The default should be to dump cron output to a file. No need to setup 4 > mail clients. Only if you want to send the output to a remote address > would you need to do this. No need to setup mail clients? How about you having to create an infrastructure to parse all these files on your servers? I like the way it is: create an alias for root and be done with it. > The option remains to install from ports as with so many other things. And many other things not. Or do you want to go the linux way: just a kernel and the rest in packages? I like a complete OS. > My concern is if some heavy legacy application, because of history or > tradition, remains in base will draw resources from advancing in other > areas that are much more relevant today. sendmail is NOT a legacy application. It's actively being developed ON FreeBSD. Actually, the maintainer(s) are doing a great job and are definetely NOT drawing resources from anyone or anything else. These discussions are. Also the sources in /usr/src/contrib/sendmail/src are 2.2 MB. That's not heavy at all. Ruben
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