Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:54:27 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: ftyczka <ftyczka@ftyczka.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail being the default MTA in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20030919205427.GA31642@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <3F6B0BEE.7030002@ftyczka.org> References: <3F6B0BEE.7030002@ftyczka.org>
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--ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 04:00:14PM +0200, ftyczka wrote: > Hello, >=20 > I was just wondering - are there any (perhaps historical) reasons, why > sendmail is the default MTA that comes with the system on FreeBSD ? Historical; it's BSD licensed; lots of people still use it; FreeBSD needs to ship with a SMTP agent to be a useful server Kris P.S. Attempts by anyone else to restart the perennial thread about changing the default mailer/removing sendmail from the base will be ignored. --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/a20DWry0BWjoQKURAi88AJ4s6khd6Sg9nQkqW3PLpBRS3eUHsQCghYA8 0jio0EMAldruY7/nKc6iv6k= =wsiX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ew6BAiZeqk4r7MaW--
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