Import of DragonFly Mail Agent

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <530B13CA.6000005 at rewt.org.uk>, Joe Holden writes:
>On 24/02/2014 04:26, Julio Merino wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>wrote:

>>> As some of you may have noticed, I have imorted a couple of days ago dma
>>> (DragonFly Mail Agent) in base. I have been asked to explain my motivation
>>> so here they are.

>> I'd argue, for example, that postfix can be also easily configured and can
>> be made to not listen on port 25 for local mail delivery, while at the same
>> time it is a fully-functional MTA that could replace sendmail altogether.

>The trend towards having sensible lightweight things in the base is a 
>good thing IMO.

Fully agree.

To the extent we can manage it, we should have minimal client-focused
tools for things like DNS, SMTP and NTP in the tree and make it
trivial for people to install the fully featured server version of
their choice from ports.

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