Re: Sendmail on 14-RELEASE

I realize that I'm asking the wrong people this question, but what is the
point of "replacing" sendmail with dma?

From this: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/commit/?id=a67b925ff3e5, which is
referenced from the release notes for 14

"dma 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."

So, why?  It's not a replacement for sendmail in any sense at
all, as it can't actually receive mail from outside the machine.

If one runs a FreeBSD mail server, one still has to keep sendmail or postfix
or some *real* MTA running, and now there's an extra step, to disable
"dma".

What's the point?

Bill Dudley
New Jersey, USA



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On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 6:32 AM void <void@f-m.fm> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 01:03:44AM -0500, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> >I have installed 14.0-RELEASE and for the life of me (even following
> >the hand book and examples from several 13.X machines around here) can
> >not get the following issues resolved:
> >
> >1. Sendmail does not start when enabled (it dies instantly)
> >2. When running in interactive mode the following alias is not found
> >despite the path existing with mailnull/mail ownership and newaliases
> >being run
>
> Sendmail is not the default mailer in 14.0-R, see
> https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/
> and grep for 'sendmail'
> --
>
>