News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent (dma). Parent comment

Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by throw0101c on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @07:25AM (#33518319)
> But it’s the falls it suffered that made every other MTA strong.

Worth remembering that Sendmail was, generally speaking, first. Shoulder of giants and all that.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by Beltalowda on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:19AM (#33519194)
Sendmail wasn't really the first per se, but it was the first that worked well. In the early 80s there were a lot of competing email protocols and systems and implementations, and Sendmail could talk to all of them, in a "bug-compatible" way. This is also why sendmail.cf is so bewilderingly flexible and complex.

Later email systems like Postfix and qmail in the 90s had it much easier as they operated in a much simpler ecosystem.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:FreeBSD will replace Sendmail by The Dragonfly Mail Agent... by gpvos on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:25PM (#33523129)
At least MMDF was (a little) earlier. Maybe it lacked some features compared to sendmail? It ran at several university sites at least. It was an early adopter of least-privilege architecture, predating qmail by a lot.
[ Parent | on HN ]