On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:56:29PM -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org>wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 09:07:23AM -0800, Rui Paulo wrote: > > > On 21 Feb 2014, at 08:32, Baptiste Daroussin <b...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 08:01:44AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > >> Why? There is /usr/ports/mail/dma. > > > >> > > > > Because there are lot of case where you do not need a full smtp server > > in base but just > > > > be able to deliver locally and/or relay mails outside, dma is very > > good for that > > > > purpose. > > > > > > I agree with this notion and to be honest the next step should be to > > remove sendmail from the base system. > > > > > I'm strongly support that idea. > > > > Baptiste, > > I appreciate that you've put a lot of thought and effort into this work, > and indeed you put in Herculean amounts of effort for the project for which > we should all be grateful. > In particular, the addition of dma is listed as having been discussed with > three other committers, and represents the potential for a very significant > change in the base system that we present to our users. As such, I think > that it would be beneficial for all parties, if a summary of the reasoning > behind this decision could be presented to us. A quick, single-sentence > reply does *not* serve this purpose; in fact it is actively working against > this purpose, by seeming to brush off the concerns of others without proper > consideration. > > I understand that your time is precious. So is the time of everyone on > this list, and a small investment in a well-written description of the > reasoning for this change should be able to prevent a long email thread > that would waste a lot of many peoples' time. It would probably be best > for this description to go to -current, instead of the svn commit lists. >
You are right I ll prepare a mail describing all that to current@. regards, Bapt
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