RFC: Sendmail deprecation ?

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Wed, Dec 06, 2017 at 08:16:04PM -0800, Don Lewis wrote:
> On  6 Dec, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I would like to propose the deprecation then removal of sendmail in base.
> > 
> > Deprecation will happen in the form of FreeBSD 12.0 being built WITHOUT_SENDMAIL
> > by default
> > 
> > removal would happen in FreeBSD 13.0
> > 
> > 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 port.
> > 
> > Users for that use case would be better served by the port version of sendmail.
> > 
> > The other kind of users are the one using the default setup of sendmail:
> > relaying emails externally and deliver locally.
> 
> I've found that sendmail in base meets my needs.  I haven't had the need
> for any of the features that are only available in the port.
> 
> It doesn't looks like dma(8) would be useful for me on my primary
> machines since I basically need its inverse.  It would only be useful
> on my headless machines to forward cron-generated mail to my mail
> server.  I don't do any local delivery of mail to mbox files.  My mail
> server delivers all mail to cyrus-imapd via lmtp, which is a fairly
> simple tweak to the sendmail.mc file.  I also have a couple of mail
> relays that do some smart routing and spam filtering.
> 
> One thing that is comes with sendmail in base but is missing from the
> sendmail port is all the handy stuff in /etc/mail, such as the
> freebsd.mc template, the aliases file, and the Makefile which makes
> maintaining the config files and the .db files much easier.  Without
> this stuff, setting up the sendmail port would be much more
> intimidating.
> 

Yup, It would be a good idea to merge them in the port probably, somone needs to
talk to the port maintainer.

Best regards,
Bapt
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