Re: Sendmail on 14-RELEASE

On 12.12.23 17:09, John Levine wrote:
> It appears that William Dudley <wfdudley@gmail.com> said:
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>> I realize that I'm asking the wrong people this question, but what is the
>> point of "replacing" sendmail with dma?
>
> Most freebsd machines are not used as mail servers. DMA is small and
> fast and adequate to handle mail from a stub system that might have a
> local mailbox or two and relays the rest of the mail to a smarthost.
>
> If you do want to run a mail server, you probably want to use postfix
> or exim so you don't have to deal with sendmail's antique and rococo
> configuration system. Having sendmail preinstalled just gets in the
> way.

I fully second that. In my bubble of IT guys exactly zero persons use
sendmail, and of the few FreeBSD users everyone is happy about change to
dma.