FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma)

Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by neilv on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:50AM (#33517580)

Circa 1990, our site (mostly a Sun shop) had to mess with our email setup, which included a UUCP link with HQ addressed by the unqualified hostname of the site's mail server, public bang paths to site servers (and percents), but also domain names (probably SMTP served from HQ and forwarded), and delivered to Unix workstation users by dropping into an mbox file in NFS automounted homedirs, and to non-engineering people running PC NFS and Eudora I don't know how...

We did almost all sysadmin expertise in-house, but for this Sendmail, we brought in a consultant.

It was a name I recognized from Usenet, and knowingly meeting a "famous" person was pretty new to me at the time. Turns out he wasn't a Unix graybeard (closer to my young skinny nerd age), and he was working on a Neuroscience PhD, while building/fixing everyone's Sendmail setups.

I didn't know to ask him which discipline was more difficult.

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Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by neilv on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:57AM (#33517611)

Once I started hosting my own personal email seriously, I think Exim was probably available. Even Exim config for a simple setup could get a bit tricky (e.g., I made it drop `Received` headers of outgoing email it was relaying for me), but nothing like Sendmail.

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Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by gw98 on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:32PM (#33524602)

I inherited one of these once. Someone had got half way through migrating it to Pegasus on NT and given up. Just as I got the whole damn thing in reasonable shape the bastards hired some Lotus consultants and replaced it with Lotus Notes.

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