Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:16:14 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com> Cc: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package? Message-ID: <b79ecaef0910270216q14421922w4acf62103322c16a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091027021723.M88213@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz> References: <4AE5F897.3000103@rawbw.com> <200910270916.31033.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> <20091027021723.M88213@qroenaqrq.6qbyyneqvnyhc.pbz>
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2009/10/27 Lars Eighner <luvbeastie@larseighner.com>: > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > >> On Monday 26 October 2009 21:29:27 Yuri wrote: >>> >>> It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. >>> >>> How many people actually use it? Very few. >>> Why isn't it moved to ports? >> >> What is this anti-sendmail obsession people have? > > The configuration is opaque, to put it kindly. > Are you talking about sendmail.m4 or sendmail.cf? Because we stopped editing sendmail.cf by hand years ago..... I really don't think configuring it properly is difficult. As you kindly cut out of Jonathan's post when you replied to it, "Almost everyone I've ever spoken to about why they dislike sendmail trots out a bunch of cliches based on sendmail 8.8. People, we're up to sendmail 8.14 now. Get over it!" [1] Chris [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg223489.html -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?
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