New installations of DragonFly will have the DragonFly Mail Agent (dma) configured by default. This is the first step to removing Sendmail from base.
This particular change will only have a small impact on existing installations. The switch is controlled by /etc/mailer.conf, and this file is never overwritten. However, there was a small change in the default configuration of periodic.conf: daily_clean_hoststat_enable changed from "YES" to "NO" daily_submit_queuerun changed from "YES" to "NO" For sendmail users to remove the impact, they just need to add the following lines to /etc/periodic.conf: daily_clean_hoststat_enable=”YES” daily_submit_queuerun="YES" For new installations that want a full-featured MTA from DPorts, please refer to a new entry in the DragonFly Handbook, "Switching Mail Transfer Agents": http://www.dragonflybsd.com/docs/docs/newhandbook/mta/ Before we can remove sendmail from base, the installworld script has be upgraded to detect when the ${DESTDIR}/etc/mailer.conf file is still configured to the base sendmail. If it does detect that case, the installation will not commence. This is to break a routine master branch upgrade from inadvertently breaking mail services. The administrator will have to configure another MTA to complete the installation. John
