In the last episode (Dec 28), Lowell Gilbert said:
> Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I don't see Sendmail X available as a port or package. I'm
> > interested in trying this version because it's the first to
> > eliminate the horribly cryptic system of m4 macros, "classes", and
> > address parsing rules that configured earlier versions. Is there a
> > reason why it's not available as a package or port for FreeBSD?
>
> Well, it's still missing a lot of functionality that you need in a
> FreeBSD system (such as the ability to actually deliver or submit
> messages), so it's more of a challenge to port properly than one
> would think. That's probably why it's still considered alpha
> software.
>
> It builds easily enough, though. And the configuration sure is a lot
> simpler (at the expense of some very powerful capabilities that were
> very rarely used). So it's not as though there is some reason
> somebody is trying to keep it *out* of the ports system.
It is in ports, as mail/smx .
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Dan Nelson
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