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

On Sun, Jan 30, 2022 at 11:25:54PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> writes:
> > I am interested in determining whether dma is a viable minimal base
> > system MTA, and if not what gaps remain.
> 
> It cannot.  Ask bapt@ who was the one to import it, and later abandon
> the idea of making it our default MTA.  The reason was that it does not
> have a default domain setting, so it cannot handle email from cron,
> periodic etc. where the recipient is just a user name (usually “root”),
> and the devs were not willing to add that feature.  I have email as far
> back as 2015 on the subject.
> 
This has been fixed since. (not by me)

Bapt