So can anyone summerize the pros and cons of sendmail/postfix? I personally don't see any advantage in using sendmail instead of postfix other than "its been in BSD for years". However, I do see advantage in Postfix. In my opinion main.cf/master.cf is much easier and easy to read by anyone.
> On 14.06.2006, at 11:16, Rob Andrews wrote: >>> HOWEVER: If someone wants to remove the MTA entirely from the base >>> system (i.e. not replacing it with another one), then I support that. >>> It should be possible to move sendmail to pkgsrc (I think it's already >>> there), and only leave a simple local delivery agent in the base >>> system (something like mail.local), ... [snip] >> I agree totally with this. I've wondered for a while why the mailer is >> in the base system, and this way there's less effort in deactivating >> the >> base system mailer when installing a preferred mailer from pkgsrc. > > We will keep sendmail. Everyone who does not want sendmail can disable > it with NO_SENDMAIL=yes in make.conf. Everyone who wants $mailer can > install it from pkgsrc and just adjust /etc/mail/mailer.conf. > > A complete mail server is part of an operating system like lpr, ntp, > dhcpd, ftpd, sshd and all the other things we ship. > > cheers > simon > > -- > Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert +++ ASCII Ribbon /"\ > Work - Mac +++ space for low NOW!1 +++ Campaign \ / > Party Enjoy Relax | http://dragonflybsd.org Against HTML \ > Dude 2c 2 the max ! http://golden-apple.biz Mail + News / \ >