Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

[Marcin Jessa <lists@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:16:59 +0100
Rob Andrews <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 14-Jun-2006 09:22.55 (BST), Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > HOWEVER:  If someone wants to remove the MTA entirely from the base
>  > system (i.e. not replacing it with another one), then I support
>  > that. It should be possible to move sendmail to pkgsrc (I think
>  > it's already there), and only leave a simple local delivery agent
>  > in the base system (something like mail.local), ... [snip]
> 
> I agree totally with this. I've wondered for a while why the mailer is
> in the base system, and this way there's less effort in deactivating
> the base system mailer when installing a preferred mailer from pkgsrc.

That's becouse other components of the base system need an MTA.
Things like for example cron. Besides that peple may be unable to fetch
packages for different reasons and having a fully operating system with
an MTA integrated into system as rapporting tool is without doubt a
pluss.
Packages are also not that tightly supervised as the main system which
at least in theory should come with security fixes for any of it's
components.

Marcin.