On Fri, Sep 07, 2012 at 12:02:13PM +0930, David Walker wrote: > Gilles Chehade <gilles () poolp ! org> > > We are getting closer to a stable version of OpenSMTPD > > Which to my mind raises the question of how OpenSMTPD is to be > implemented alongside Sendmail in the base system. > Presumably, as per other items that are included in base but not the > default, i.e. DNS services, etcetera, there will be a perhaps lengthy > period where these systems co-exist and are both intended to be usable > in their own right. > > AFAIUI, currently base contains some specific OpenSMTPD items for use > and documentation, smtpd and smtpd(8), smtpctl and smtpctl(8), > smtpd.conf and smtpd.conf(5) ... > These items exist in their own name space and are accessible. > > These man pages, and by extension these services, reference and depend > on utilities and concomitant man pages which are taxonomically > identical to similar items designed for Sendmail ... > Being labelled identically there's only room for one of each and as > Sendmail is the current default mail system the OpenSMTPD items are > not installed. > > The OpenSMTPD man pages don't make this clear and other than OpenSMTPD > not working when the Sendmail incumbents are used and referenced > there's no indication that something is awry. >
Didn't we discuss this already ? At the moment, smtpd(8) is not the default MTA and as such requires that you take an extra step to activate. If you make this extra step, you are supposed to know what you're doing. There will be a time when we decide smtpd(8) is stable enough to replace sendmail(8) in base, at that point we will figure out what is the proper way to deal with the colliding documentation and the co-existance of the two. We still have a few issues to deal with first and there is no need to be in a hurry fixing non-issues before they are a problem. On the bright side, all feedback has been positive and we mostly receive feature requests, not bugs, these days. We still have 6 bugs to fix that are preventing us from saying that we have release material. We're about to close 4 of them. Be patient. -- Gilles Chehade https://www.poolp.org @poolpOrg
