Subject: Re: Proposal: removal of sendmail and postfix from base install
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From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/17/2005 11:52:43
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Martin Husemann wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 07:32:25PM +0000, Stefan Krüger wrote:
>> yeah I think everyone expects that a *BSD should have sendmail in base,
>> but why do we have postfix, too? I think one MTA is enough...
>
> And pc(1)!
>
> I understand the notion that mail magically just should work (although
> from my perspective the percentage of installations where this is possible
> is tiny). But looking at the hoops we jump through to make this possible
> nowadays, the effort for the minimal benefit is just ridiculous.
>
> On all mail machines with serious mail configuration I have, none of the
> MTAs in base is enough, so I use a mailer from pkgsrc.
>
> I completely agree with the proposal.

Martin, you're not reading carefully.

Stefan and I both agree that with his quote, "everyone expects that a
*BSD should have sendmail in base."

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