Re: DMA, not Sendmail on 14-RELEASE

From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:05:14 UTC 
On Tue, Dec 12, 2023 at 2:57 PM John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:

> It appears that Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> said:
> >On 12 Dec 2023 11:09:37 -0500, John Levine wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> >On the other hand, if you just want to use the system's
> >mailer to run a "TLS relay", it is not needed to install
> >and configure a full 3rd party mail server - initially
> >sendmail does serve here quite well. On the other hand,
> >can dma do this?
>
> Yes, of course. DMA relays to a smarthost and can use TLS to the
> smarthost's port 587, 465, or I suppose 25.
>
> I'm not really asking, instead I would
> >install sendmail from ports if I needed that kind of
> >software.
>
> But why?  DMA Is already there and does what you want.
>

Maybe because he wants to?

Just saying, choice in software is up to the user.

@OP

Go install sendmail from ports and be on your merry way.

~Paul

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