Why is Sendmail still around?

[Arthur Chance]

On 29/03/2019 14:12, John Levine wrote:
> In article <20190329141453.f2f7326f.freebsd at edvax.de> you write:
>>> "man dma" for details.
>>
>> This sounds like a welcome solution. Could you send your
>> mail locally to sendmail, and then have sendmail use dma
>> to transfer it to the SMTP "incoming" server of your mail
>> provider? I. e., what a mail relay / "SmartHost" usually
>> does (even though with a different mechanism)?
> 
> No need.  You can configure dma to send all mail to your smarthost,
> then edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf to use dma as your mail program.
> 

I believe the "approved" technique is to create
/usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf which overrides the default in /etc. (As
of 10.3 IIRC)

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