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. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Mon Feb 24 2014 - 08:56:12 UTC
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