Import of DragonFly Mail Agent

Julio Merino jmmv at freebsd.org
Tue Feb 25 03:40:16 UTC 2014


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Thomas Mueller
<mueller6724 at bellsouth.net>wrote:

> To Julio Merino:  How long did NetBSD include both sendmail and postfix in
> base?  What NetBSD releases?  What was the first release that included both
> sendmail and postfix, and the first release where sendmail was dropped?
>

As far as I can tell, postfix was added in NetBSD 1.5 (Dec 6, 2000), made
the default in NetBSD 2.0 (Dec 9, 2004) and sendmail was removed in NetBSD
4.0 (Dec 19, 2007). That's a 7-year long transitional period.

I haven't been able to find the discussion for the removal of sendmail
unfortunately.


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