[OmniOS-discuss] Bloody // mailwrapper & mta mediator

[Gary Gendel]

Though in principal I agree with you.  Having sendmail installed but not 
enabled only wastes a little disk space.  This isn't a showstopper for 
me.  Before mailwrapper it was a royal nightmare.

On 11/3/2015 9:39 PM, Paul B. Henson wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2015 at 07:33:40PM -0500, Dan McDonald wrote:
>
>> We may need to weaken "require" to something else.  I know the bug
>> filer is on this list.  I'd appreciate a dialogue here on this
>> subject.
> We don't use sendmail. I remember piping up when sendmail became a
> requirement of 014 during its bloody phase, so I will restate -- please
> don't make sendmail a hard dependency :(. What's the point of an
> interposer allowing the use of whatever mail system you want if you're
> forced to install one you don't want 8-/. Generally on operating systems
> that allow multiple options of a specific service you add on the ones
> you want after the base install. I'd say the box in the bug report
> simply hadn't been fully configured yet.
>
> Honestly, I can't understand why anyone would *choose* to use sendmail
> nowadays ;), if you want to install an MTA in the base how about you
> package up postfix :)... We're currently running it from pkgsrc.
>
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