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> Is anybody actually using sendmail? Not sure if this counts to you, but I believe FreeBSD still ships with functioning mail out of the box, and they use send
by koito17 3y ago
> Is anybody actually using sendmail?
Not sure if this counts to you, but I believe FreeBSD still ships with functioning mail out of the box, and they use sendmail. On FreeBSD 12 at least, sudo actually reports incidents to root's mailbox :)
With that said, when I was engaged with the FreeBSD community years ago, there would be periodic bursts of drama over "debloating" the base install, and sendmail was one (of several) programs people wanted to remove in order to "debloat" the base install. So I wouldn't be surprised if the latest version no longer has functioning mail, let alone sendmail installed.
- 1over137 3y agoI believe FreeBSD 14 just changed the default from sendmail to dma: https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/ https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/
- koito17 3y agoThanks for pointing this out. In the release notes, I see > sendmail(8) and its configuration remain available. I assume this means sendmail still exists in base installs. Do you know the rationale behind this decision? Upgrading from FreeBSD 13 shouldn't result in the binary suddenly going away, so I want to believe there are no backwards compatibility concerns with simply replacing sendmail with dma.
- justsomehnguy 3y agoIMO dma(8) says enough about rationale: > dma is not intended as a replacement for real, big MTAs like sendmail(8) or postfix(1). Consequently, dma does not listen on port 25 for incoming connections.
- mr_person 3y agoI believe they got their wish in 14... From the release notes: The default mail transport agent (MTA) is now the Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma(8)) rather than sendmail(8). Configuration of the MTA is done via mailer.conf(5). sendmail(8) and its configuration remain available.