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I wish FreeBSD would follow suit. They dropped BIND in favor of Unbound for 10.0-RELEASE, so the precedent is there. Sendmail wouldn't be so bad if it weren't
by xenophonf 12y ago
I wish FreeBSD would follow suit. They dropped BIND in favor of Unbound for 10.0-RELEASE, so the precedent is there. Sendmail wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so damned arcane and broken. Like, something as simple as getting TLS to work with older Exchange servers is impossible. Forums are filled with people complaining about this problem for the last ten years. It's so frustrating, especially when the workaround in other mailers is so simple (e.g., Postfix, where one can force TLSv1 in the SMTP client TLS policy map).
- ketralnis 12y agoI'd be just as happy seeing freebsd drop having an SMTP server in the base system entirely. Having an LDA->SMTP client in base makes sense, but an entire mailserver in the base system? What percentage of freebsd installs are for dedicated mailservers? If that's even less than 80% (and I presume it's below 1%), having "install it from Ports" being the first step still makes sense. But then I feel the same way about BIND (and now unbound)
- Istof 12y ago80% doesn't make much sense, you probably should stick with 1% (or did you mean 8%)
- tedunangst 12y agoI thought there was a scheme afoot to import the dragonfly mail agent into freebsd, but I'm not up on the current status.
- tobiasu 12y agoBIND was also removed from OpenBSD btw.
- kev009 12y agoDMA is the likely direction we will see in FreeBSD 11: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-February/048470.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2014-Feb... If you want/need a full mail server, you get your pick from ports.
- stock_toaster 12y agoSounds great. Hope it happens. -crosses fingers-
- xenophonf 12y ago> If you want/need a full mail server, you get your pick from ports. Which is exactly what I already do. This is good news as far as I'm concerned.