Re: Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) in the base system
- In reply to: Ed Maste : "Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) in the base system"
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Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:56:15 UTC
On 27/01/2022 22:34, Ed Maste wrote: > The Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) is a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA) > which accepts mail from a local Mail User Agent (MUA) and delivers it > locally or to a smarthost for delivery. dma does not accept inbound > mail (i.e., it does not listen on port 25) and is not intended to > provide the same functionality as a full MTA like postfix or sendmail. > It is intended for use cases such as delivering cron(8) mail. > > Since 2014 we have a copy of dma in the base system available as an > optional component, enabled via the WITH_DMAGENT src.conf knob. > > I am interested in determining whether dma is a viable minimal base > system MTA, and if not what gaps remain. If you have enabled DMA on > your systems (or are willing to give it a try) and have any feedback > or are aware of issues please follow up or submit a PR as appropriate. > > We use it also to get periodic mail and other mail off of the system and it works fine! Gr Johan