Re: Postfix and local mail delivery - still relevant in 2020?

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

I find the discussion in general a bit strange. Seems like Sad Clouds 
thinks there is a mail server in there just because he sees "postfix". 
While postfix can be set up as a mail server, it is not done in the base 
system, so what is the problem here. Not entirely sure... A bit of waste 
of disk space?

Anyway, there was one thing your wrote Greg, that I slightly disagree 
with... :-)

On 2020-06-07 01:19, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Software and systems (and often sysadmins and possibly other users) send
> email.  Some such software is even part of the base NetBSD system
> distribution.  This is as true in 2020 as it was in 2000 or even 1995.

Or 1985...

> Email is often much more conveniently delivered to a remote or central
> server (i.e. as opposed to being delivered to a locally mounted
> filesystem).
>
> Delivering mail to a remote mail server requires MTA software that is
> capable of delivering mail via the network.
>
> Postfix is a most excellent MTA that can be configured to deliver mail
> via the network.
>
> Conveniently Postfix is also a most excellent MTA that can be configured
> to (also) _receive_ mail via the network.
>
> Postfix's licensing and portability and ease of configuration and
> operation (as well as its extensive features and scalability) make it
> most excellent software for NetBSD.
>
> Ergo Postfix is in the base NetBSD system distribution.
>
> (in case you didn't know, once upon a time the MTA in NetBSD was
> Sendmail -- Postfix is more excellent than Sendmail in every way)

That I disagree with. Being a person who actually runs NetBSD on some 
older hardware, postfix is a real resource hog. It takes forever to 
start up, while sendmail takes off in no time. I actually like sendmail, 
while I find postfix to be way over complicated.
(But yes, I can understand people not liking sendmail.cf, it takes a bit 
to grow on you.)

(But then again, I'm also backward enough that I actually hate git as 
well...)

  Johnny

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