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 00:18:50 UTC
Ed Maste wrote in <CAPyFy2Cu-TJk5zkJ5qGgJa62b7BVE__Hv2huM-f-ALzxo9AiQw@mail.gmail.com>: |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 used it for years and even maintained a package for a Linux distribution (CRUX) until last October, and i think maybe even AlpineLinux before? I know for sure i maintained a package with Author: emaste Date: Fri Oct 27 20:21:09 2017 New Revision: 325047 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/325047 patched on top of it for years. Very basic usage, only local delivery. But i plan to readd the package as part of the postfix-lmdb package i maintain, because, you know, postfix's sendmail(1) and local deliveries need read access to the postfix configuration, and as part of my effort to totally box (unshare + overlay mount) all my daemons which cross ingress/egress (and place their config under /root/hosts/$HOSTNAME), it's need to access /etc/postfix-lmdb is in the way. (The plan is thus to make dma "part of this package" and make it provide /usr/sbin/sendmail, configured to proxy to local SMTP, where postfix then regulary sits.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)