On 2024-04-15 14:08, Roger Marquis wrote:
i am working on a patch for mailwrapper, which i'd like to move from FreeBSD-utilities to its own package.
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Please don't, however, link anything to sendmail. Even it's author says sendmail should be deprecated. Despite the many hours some of us have put into sendmail.cf customizations this software is long past its effective deprecation date.
Please. Can we not turn this into a MTA v. MTA discussion? Mailwrapper should handle all the MTAs supported by FreeBSD. Shouldn't it? That's what it's used for. Right? :) --Chris
Roger Marquishowever i'm a little stymied by usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile[0], which seems to do a few fairly odd things for the benefit of src users, such as linking mailwrapper to either dma or sendmail if mailwrapper itself isn't built. i'd like to significantly simplify the logic here so that if mailwrapper is enabled (${MK_MAILWRAPPER} == yes), it's always installed in the usual place, and doesn't pretend to be dma or sendmail, and there is no special handling depending on the value of ${MK_SENDMAIL} and ${MK_DMAGENT}. this might require some changes to either sendmail or dma (which of course i'd test before submitting anything), but in principle, does this sound like a reasonable idea? i am concious that many/most people don't use pkgbase yet and we shouldn't break things for them, but this seems like an ideal to time to clean up some of this legacy stuff. [0] https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/mailwrapper/Makefile
