From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 6 21:43:39 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFD7A37B401 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:43:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from empire.explosive.mail.net (empire.explosive.mail.net [205.205.25.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0D6DB43ED4 for ; Mon, 6 Jan 2003 21:43:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mykroft@explosive.mail.net) Received: (qmail 6805 invoked from network); 7 Jan 2003 05:42:33 -0000 Received: from ticking.explosive.mail.net (HELO ticking) (205.205.25.116) by empire.explosive.mail.net with SMTP; 7 Jan 2003 05:42:33 -0000 Message-ID: <02b001c2b60f$b5625400$7419cdcd@ticking> From: "Adam Maas" To: "Mark" , References: <000001c2b5e6$8567c0b0$6a32a8c0@dpg> <44znqd1vtk.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <200301070537.H075BTJ01964@asarian-host.net> Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 00:43:30 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Definitely keep them included, but not so closely tied to the core installation. Perhaps take a page from Slackware, which includes them by default, even on a minimal install, but you can manually deselect them if you don't wish sendmail (or bind, etc). --Adam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 12:37 AM Subject: Re: Postfix vs. Sendmail > Not to miss out on the party either, but I'd like it on record that there > are also people, like me, who like things like sendmail and Perl, etc, > included in the FreeBSD distribution. :) I had to install these packages > anyway, and found it very useful to see them already included. > > I recompiled sendmail, a bit later, as I wanted SASL support; but still, > having the full source already present (which you know is certified to > compile properly, as it came with the distribution), was a big help. > > As far as I'm concerned, include as much as you can. :) > > - Mark > > System Administrator Asarian-host.org > > --- > "If you were supposed to understand it, > we wouldn't call it code." - FedEx > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message