Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:17:28 -0700 From: "Janky Jay, III" <jankyj@unfs.us> To: Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DragonFlyBSD mail agent Message-ID: <49665148.1040201@unfs.us> In-Reply-To: <20090108164810.GA43169@lpthe.jussieu.fr> References: <20090108164810.GA43169@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Michel. Ah! Okay. This makes much more sense... Its not a problem at all to port the mail agent to FreeBSD. Just create a port, test and submit it and voila! Sorry for the misunderstanding earlier... Regards, Janky Jay, III Michel Talon wrote: > "Janky Jay, III" wrote: > >> By default, FreeBSD's Sendmail that comes in base already delivers mail >> to local users and reads the aliases file also. It supports configuring >> a smarthost as well. Unless there are some highly desired features in >> the DragonFlyBSD mail agent, I seriously doubt there will be any >> migration to it from Sendmail in the near future. > > I was not speaking of replacing sendmail in the base system, only on > offering this mail agent in the *ports*, this is why i posted in > freebsd-ports. I should have been clearer. > > This mail agent doesn't offer anything compelling compared to sendmail, > only it is much smaller and presumably more secure. For example if you > want a mail agent in a jail, you can envision to use this one instead of > sendmail because it is much lighter. Yes i know ssmtpd could do the > same, more or less but this one has a little more flexibility without > falling in the complexity of the big ones. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFJZlFIGK3MsUbJZn4RAgOSAJ0VOtSEKaZHXlKaeQIUoI5PuR64KACfTOcx N3WqR0rQ6S7pjolzWEuKhy4= =doPU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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