Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 09:56:05AM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> 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.

That's is what I'm doing with dma :)

you want a full featured smtp server:
pkg install ${FAVORITESMTP:-opensmtpd}

regards,
Bapt