RFC: Sendmail deprecation ?

[Vitaly Magerya]

On 12/06/2017 11:33 PM, 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
> 
> [...]
> 
> If noone express a strong opinion by then, I will turn sendmail option off by
> december 15th.

While I mildly welcome the replacement of sendmail with dma in base,
what I really want to thank Baptiste and everyone involved for is the
proper organization of this change: first a clear transition path
(sendmail->dma), then a build knob to test the switch, then an advance
announcement with a period for discussion, then a deprecation in the
next major release, and then a complete removal after one major release.
This is how it should be done. Thanks, Baptiste. It seems that too often
we take this procedure for granted.