> From: Gonzalo Nemmi gne...@gmail.com > On Thursday 08 January 2009 12:08:55 pm Michel Talon wrote: > > Hello, > > > > would it not be interesting to have the DragonFlyBSD mail agent in > > FreeBSD? It is a very simple mail agent, like ssmtp, but with some more > > features: it can either deliver mail locally for local users or send all > > other mail to a smarthost, and reads the aliases file. Hence it fulfills > > the needs of the person who wants a small mail agent for receiving > > periodic root mail, and wants to send the occasional without too much > > fuss. It is much simpler than sendmail, postfix or exim. > > > > For simplicity i have a tarball here: > > http://www.lpthe.jussieu.fr/~talon/dma.tgz > > it compiles out of the box, and it is easy to figure out how to use it. > > I second that .. Sendmail has turned into an unnecesary behemont for a local > MTA .. dma is a lot smaller, simpler, easier to maintain, a lot less bug > prone, way easier to configure and all in all, just what I need if my MTA > only job will be delivering local mail ... Sendmail feels like having a > HUMMER only to take my kids to school and then get back to my home .. which > is only two blocks away ... :s > > It would be really nice if I could choose whether I want Sendmail, Postfix or > dma upon installation time (sysinstall) ...
You can all ready choose if your want Postfix or SendMail when installing. IMHO, Postfix is a far superior MTA anyway. -- Gerard ges...@yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
