Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2019 14:15:39 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, mayuresh@kathe.in Subject: Re: Why is Sendmail still around? Message-ID: <4ab0d37d-e18d-f991-2729-1d055b50c7c0@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <20190329141453.f2f7326f.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <4101a1092141b58e05ef7552278b15ff@kathe.in> <78b9b0ce-b7cd-96f6-aeed-d9756f50ce80@qeng-ho.org> <20190329141453.f2f7326f.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 29/03/2019 13:14, Polytropon wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2019 13:02:00 +0000, Arthur Chance wrote: >> On 29/03/2019 01:59, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: >>> I am led to believe that Sendmail is still around in the install image >>> as well as the base install because some need a way to send out mails >>> without having to install a package/port. Can't the same be achieved >>> with "msmtp" which is lighter and easier to configure for simple tasks >>> than Sendmail. Hope FreeBSD isn't hanging on to Sendmail due to some >>> political issue like being the baby of one of the lead developers / >>> founders! >> >> Note that dma (the DragonFly Mail Agent) appeared in FreeBSD as of 11.2 >> (I think, maybe 11.1). It's basically an SMTP client for sending mail >> off the machine, not receiving incoming. It can do local delivery too, >> if anyone is still using that. When building jails I strip out most >> "system" executables including sendmail and use dma if the jail needs to >> send mail out. I also use it on headless servers, passing everything to >> a smarthost. >> >> "man dma" for details. > > This sounds like a welcome solution. Could you send your > mail locally to sendmail, and then have sendmail use dma > to transfer it to the SMTP "incoming" server of your mail > provider? I. e., what a mail relay / "SmartHost" usually > does (even though with a different mechanism)? dma can be plugged in as a sendmail replacement by creating /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf (the same way as you use postfix or qmail). It doesn't listen for incoming mail, but apart from that it works. See /usr/share/examples/dma/mailer.conf or use my version arthur@arthur[4]> cat /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf sendmail /usr/libexec/dma send-mail /usr/libexec/dma mailq /usr/libexec/dma newaliases /usr/bin/true hoststat /usr/bin/true purgestat /usr/bin/true -- What do we want? A time machine! When do we want it? Errm ...
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