From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 20:39:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37610106567C for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:39:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: from qw-out-2122.google.com (qw-out-2122.google.com [74.125.92.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF6EF8FC1B for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 20:39:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnemmi@gmail.com) Received: by qw-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 9so5636059qwb.7 for ; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:39:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=uUojMt4aVCvDaqimiUztPP5FuOPcreX+PzHrGAlgC4c=; b=aFWbzwuHwT6XdU3EemiVbfR3JT9XANn9f4yn3JRzhim5zOKdCLaK8pdGqQQY539Tk+ rm6OhyttUxt7eCwpJs82zPZXuW62eUbE78m9hhEPmNBmV0gsxno6GneTF70AzEk0xDCh xb+/ajNRNOEDipjWR5z/mEbJTNlSMJGV//TzA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=dsuNr0ijvsp7IpXcUorDwtv+cKKhp0aXeL9wyuLYxVoGiNdbPa/vZRU0dy/KOD8+uH ADhpNi6ZRYG4ia7kbuWBAfsUqgJGHZDRy+8wzyybx0wxzqB7ypzKnGXzZyUAWHkyFhLA IXWZxdvWhULsPO6LSOGwxgxc808Ai/DErX5pQ= Received: by 10.214.150.13 with SMTP id x13mr23398873qad.60.1231533576035; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:39:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.100? ([190.177.216.120]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm19227860yxj.48.2009.01.09.12.39.34 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:39:35 -0800 (PST) From: Gonzalo Nemmi To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:39:30 -0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090108140855.GA34257@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200901091657.30692.gnemmi@gmail.com> <170012.33869.qm@web32102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <170012.33869.qm@web32102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901091839.30134.gnemmi@gmail.com> Cc: Subject: Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:39:37 -0000 On Friday 09 January 2009 5:56:42 pm GESBBB wrote: > > From: Gonzalo Nemmi gnemmi@gmail.com > > > > 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) ... > > You can all ready choose if your want Postfix or SendMail when installing. > IMHO, Postfix is a far superior MTA anyway. Sure thing .. that's what I do .. but, personally, I've found dma to be even better than postfix for this matter (local only/cron sent emails). I've got both books (the bat, and the dove) .. and believe me .. I find it _really_hard_ to find a scenario in which Sendmail "has" to be the default MTA on a fresh install unless we are talking about imposed polocies (like in corporate polocies maybe or due to the Postfix license) or pre-existent configurations. -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi