Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

[Chris Rees]

2009/10/29 Lars Eighner <luvbeastie at larseighner.com>:
> On Thu, 29 Oct 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote:
>
>> sendmail is NOT a legacy application. It's actively being developed
>> ON FreeBSD. Actually, the maintainer(s) are doing a great job
>
> Bullshit.
>
> Why does sendmail call up the internet during boot?  If it needs to know who
> it is, why can't it look in hosts?  Since it cannot be trusted to send mail,
> what does it need to know from the internet?  It has been horribly broken
> for the 15 years or so that I have run FBSD, and this m4 stuff is a pile of
> crap.  There is no documentation whatsoever.  Unless you buy a book from
> O'Reilly and line the pockets of the "maintainer(s)."  Why can't it be a
> option to configure the system without it?  Not any money in that, is there?
>

What's wrong with 'this m4 stuff'?

The documentation can be found in one of many of these links:

http://www.google.com/search?q=sendmail.mc

Chris

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