On 08/13/2010 03:00 PM, Daniel Ouellet wrote:
Hmmm. Sendmail was in base and is still in the system, but was replace
as the default MTA by smtpd a few release ago. So, I sure don't thin you
will see smtpd being replace again by something else in base. It was
already done. Check the archive.
It was announced and done in 4.6
http://openbsd.org/46.html
New tools:
* Added smtpd(8), a new privilege-separated SMTP daemon.
Are you saying you want the replacement in place now to be replace
again!?!?!?...
No.
For clarification; I don't believe there is such a thing as
the universal "best" MTA, since different users have different
requirements. I personally like a smallish MTA, like smtpd(8),
as the default MTA in base. But I also like my network servers
to have been "field proven in the nasty wilderness" by others
for some time before starting to use them myself in production,
and smptd(8) is still a rather fresh piece of software.
Were there any other reasons for writing smtpd(8), instead of
just importing Postfix into base as the default MTA, besides
Postfix's license?
/Fredrik Henbjork, who also wonders if anyone here has any
strong opinions regarding the feature set and security of the
Apache in base, when compared to recent versions of (the BSD-
licensed and C-based) Nginx and lighttpd?
