Re: Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma) in the base system

On 1/27/22 1:34 PM, 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.

I've used DMA on systems without local mail accounts to forward cron
periodic e-mails just fine.  It even supports STARTTLS and SMTP AUTH.
I haven't tried using it for simple local delivery to /var/mail/root.

-- 
John Baldwin