Re: DMA, not Sendmail on 14-RELEASE

It appears that Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> said:
>On 12 Dec 2023 11:09:37 -0500, John Levine wrote:
>> If you do want to run a mail server, you probably want to use postfix
>> or exim so you don't have to deal with sendmail's antique and rococo
>> configuration system. Having sendmail preinstalled just gets in the
>> way.
>
>On the other hand, if you just want to use the system's
>mailer to run a "TLS relay", it is not needed to install
>and configure a full 3rd party mail server - initially
>sendmail does serve here quite well. On the other hand,
>can dma do this? 

Yes, of course. DMA relays to a smarthost and can use TLS to the
smarthost's port 587, 465, or I suppose 25.

I'm not really asking, instead I would
>install sendmail from ports if I needed that kind of
>software.

But why?  DMA Is already there and does what you want.

R's,
John