Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 02:33:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Benjamin Kaduk <bjk@freebsd.org> To: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mention authenticated SMTP from ports in Sec 28.9 Message-ID: <alpine.GSO.1.10.1507310230410.22210@multics.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <CAPcSSv%2BerVQiry%2BDa5CLxUxv3nh_6V9Q7XMCP35=oi-H4skJ3g@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPcSSv%2BerVQiry%2BDa5CLxUxv3nh_6V9Q7XMCP35=oi-H4skJ3g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I've been using smtp auth, as per handbook > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/SMTP-Auth.html > for years. > > Lately I'm trying to move to binary updates on amd64, > which means not rebuilding parts of the world by hand. > > So I installed mail/sendmail package which is > built with authentication support (sendmail+tls+sasl2-8.15.1). > I followed the config instructions at the end of the install > message and things seem to work fine. > > I think it's worth mentioning, at the very beginning of > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/SMTP-Auth.html > that using sendmail from ports is a convenient alternative to > these instructions. That's probably a good idea. It seems likely that there was not a sendmail port that defaulted to having authentication support at the time this section was written, not to mention being present in a usable package system. > Are there any downsides to using sendmail from ports > vs the OS sendmail? I think the only issues are generic ones to having a software installed in both the base system and from ports, involving making sure everything is using the version from ports, and what happens during early startup before /usr/local is ready. I don't expect it to be particularly onerous for the case of sendmail. -Ben
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