On Friday 09 January 2009 5:56:42 pm GESBBB wrote:
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.
Sure thing .. that's what I do .. but, personally, I've found dma to be even
better than postfix for this matter (local only/cron sent emails).
I've got both books (the bat, and the dove) .. and believe me .. I find it
_really_hard_ to find a scenario in which Sendmail has to be the default
MTA on a fresh install unless we are talking about imposed polocies (like in
corporate polocies maybe or due to the Postfix license) or pre-existent
configurations.
--
Blessings
Gonzalo Nemmi
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