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Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by jsrcout on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @05:22AM (#33517750)
Agree. The hardest thing in the world (besides configuring sendmail) is to remember that other peoples' use cases are not necessarily my use case. The world of email was a whole lot different back when sendmail was created.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#History

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Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by zokier on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @07:04AM (#33518225)
> The world of email was a whole lot different back when sendmail was created.

Sure, email in 80s was different than in the 90s. The problem with sendmail is that it didn't get replaced when it really wasn't a good fit anymore and instead it got dragged on for extra 30 years.

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