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This is from a year old tweet so it may not be correct anymore, but: “FreeBSD/Firecracker now boots to a login prompt in 782 ms. 170 ms of this is spent gener

by cwillu 3y ago

This is from a year old tweet so it may not be correct anymore, but: “FreeBSD/Firecracker now boots to a login prompt in 782 ms. 170 ms of this is spent generating a self-signed TLS certificate for sendmail, because of course it is.”

yakubin 3y ago
FreeBSD 14 is going to replace sendmail with DragonFlyBSD’s dma.
pjc50 3y ago
It's 2023, I don't think any system calling itself "minimal" should have an MTA.
- JdeBP 3y ago
  The notion that the system mails things to certain local accounts is still quite strong in FreeBSD. In fairness, it's a notion that has a long history in Unices in general; so it isn't FreeBSD Think. On the gripping hand, it's mad that it's still Sendmail, although that is going to change. It's 2023, and the fact that a FreeBSD system still has the traditional ~2000 lines of indistinguishable-from-line-noise "DO NOT EDIT THIS" stuff in /etc/mail/sendmail.cf, complete with whole bunches of rules for UUCP, is rather amazing. I wonder how many small FreeBSD systems out there are spending their time double-bouncing cron-job mail that cannot be delivered. (-:
- stephan-cr 3y ago
  Recently, I tested FreeBSD and it seems one can disable sendmail. See https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdinstall-hardening https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdin....