RFC: Sendmail deprecation ?

[Cy Schubert]

In message <20171206223341.iz3vj4zz2igqczy7 at ivaldir.net>, Baptiste 
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> Hi all,
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> I would like to propose the deprecation then removal of sendmail in base.
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> Deprecation will happen in the form of FreeBSD 12.0 being built WITHOUT_SENDM
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> by default
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> removal would happen in FreeBSD 13.0
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> sendmail in base it not really usable as a full featured mta due to the fact 
> it
> does not support anything an entreprised grade mta setup would require: ldap
> support for example, check the number of options available in the sendmail po
> rt.
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> Users for that use case would be better served by the port version of sendmai
> l.
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> The other kind of users are the one using the default setup of sendmail:
> relaying emails externally and deliver locally.
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> We have dma(8) which is way smaller than sendmail(8) have a configuration fil
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> understandable by most users (yet that is subjecttive) and have the setuid
> binary capsicumized.
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> dma(8) has been modified to fix issues reported by clusteradm preventing its
> usage in real life situations:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208263
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> I think only providing dma(8) by default and let users choose a full featured
> mta via packages is a good solution and better for both sendmail users and no
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> sendmail users.

Deprecate sendmail but no dma please. If anything, a small shell script to 
invoke dialog to allow the user to select their MTA package of choice. This 
could run at first boot -- which covers bsdinstall users and users who 
install from source.

Please no dma.


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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert at cschubert.com>
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