Sendmail deprecation ?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <201712070416.vB74GhD8050840 at mail.karels.net>, Mike Karels writes:
>> ... A stub like pkg that could install a package, providing the 
>> user with a list to choose from, possibly timing out after a short period 
>> of time to install the dma pkg (or port) makes the most sense to me and 
>> should be a good compromise for all.
>
>Without specifying a mechanism, I agree that providing a menu would be
>good.  I don't think it should time out.

The majority of installed FreeBSD systems would never see a menu
in bsdinstaller(8).

We should talk about what "make release" does, because that is the
common basis for almost all install methods of FreeBSD:  bsdinstall(8),
nanobsd(8), diskless(8), jail(8) etc. etc.

Cron(8) and periodic(8) need local delivery to work, so the plain
"make release" should install dma(8) so local delivery works.

I don't care if bsdinstall(8) offers MTA configuration menus or
not, and that decision or lack thereof should not hold up replacing
sendmail(8) with dma(8).

And good riddance to sendmail(8):  Life is too short for sendmail.cf

Poul-Henning

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