> I also disagree on the "not-as-secure" point. The days when > sendmail CERT advisories were issued weekly are long gone. > Sendmail isn't monolithic anymore, it has been split into > several processes using separated priviledges, similar to > postfix and qmail.
Still very different. sendmail is one big binary. postfix and qmail use several small binaries that do not easily trust each other. Yes, there is a sendmail that is modular. It is in development. A version can be tested from pkgsrc-wip at wip/sendmailX. sm-X is a rewrite. See http://www.sendmail.org/sm-X/. (I am not suggesting switching to it.) > I strongly disagree that postfix is a "better alternative" > that warrants removing a piece of BSD software that has > been working fine for many years. sendmail may be "BSD" softare. But it is not BSD licensed. > 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), so delivery of mails > from local cron jobs will work if no real MTA -- be it > sendmail, postfix, exim, whatever -- has been installed > from pkgsrc. If locally generated mails need to be sent > to a mail server (this is what sendmail calls a "null > client"), no fully-fledged MTA is required either: a > simple and secure SMTP client (such as ssmtp) can be used. For over five years, I have been running on some systems, my BSD-licensed sendmail client replacement, called mailout. It does out-bound only. I never finished the queueing or the local delivery support. Also I need to make it modern -- SASL and such :) I like and use postfix myself. My one problem with it is that I need to have some of the processes running to even use it. I'd prefer to be able to have email services turned off but still be able to send an email as can be done with sendmail (depending on configuration) or mailout or other simple alternatives. Jeremy C. Reed echo '9,J8HD,[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED];[EMAIL PROTECTED]@5GBIELD54DL>@8L?:5GDEJ8LDG1' |\ sed ss,s50EBsg | tr 0-M 'p.wBt SgiIlxmLhan:o,erDsduv/cyP'
