Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2003 09:01:03 -0600 From: Peter Schultz <peter@jocose.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing Sendmail Message-ID: <3E8AFB2F.3040701@jocose.org> In-Reply-To: <3E8AEFBF.D1D640E3@mindspring.com> References: <3E8AED1B.10606@jocose.org> <3E8AEFBF.D1D640E3@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert wrote: > Peter Schultz wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I hope that core will approve removing sendmail from FreeBSD-CURRENT. > > > I'm pretty sure they will, just as soon as someone provides > patches to make installed base system components like sendmail > into "preinstalled packages", and then steps up and makes some > other MTA and MSA able to be installed by default instead, so > that things like "/etc/daily", "/etc/weekly", and so on can > still send an email to the local "root" user upon completion. > Why not just have these logged by default instead? Like /var/log/daily, and whatnot. Anyone with half a care about this stuff can easily make their own modifications, those who don't care will never know the difference. On a simple installation where the user is careless, these e-mails are spamming roots mailbox. Imagine the hundreds if not thousands of ignored messages. > PS: This comes up every time a sendmail CERT advisory happens, > but then no one provides the necessary patches to make email > continue to work with sendmail deinstalled, or the package > files to allow it to be deinstalled and replaces easily. > I'm sorry for beating a dead horse. A guy and I from tcbug were just trying to fix his postfix installation, he does not know what happened, it just stopped working. There would not have been a problem if sendmail wasn't tied into the system so closely. I'm just hoping core will say, "submit a working solution and it will be done," so that there's a little inspiration here. Pete...
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