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[LadySerenaKitty]

FreeBSD's periodic scripts invoke sendmail.  The sendmail subsystem then invokes some sort of sendmail-like program, by default it's sendmail.  I configured the sendmail subsystem to invoke citmail.  So ya, it's still needed for FreeBSD installations who want their system maintenance scripts to put stuff in Citadel.

Thu Sep 21 2023 10:05:14 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar

*sigh*

Another day, another person who won't listen.

Quick poll for fellow Citerati out there. Does anyone think we still need the `citmail` utility? As a refresher, this program is an MDA, analagous to `procmail` or `maildrop`, that files incoming mail into Citadel mailboxes after it has been received by some third-party MTA such as Postfix or Sendmail.
However, Citadel has for a long time offered an LMTP socket, and I believe all modern MTAs can use LMTP to drop local mail to local users.

So what I'm looking for is someone to say "You're correct about that, IG; spawning a process to invoke the MDA is sooooo 20 years ago and nobody does it that way anymore" so that I can discontinue `citmail` entirely.

(The number of sites using Citadel Server with a third party MTA is vanishingly small to begin with -- but not zero.)