Sendmail removed from OpenBSD Base

jeremy · 09-16-2014, 09:55 AM

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In the first of several commits, Matthieu Herrb (matthieu@) has removed sendmail from the release:

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CVSROOT: /cvs
Module name: src
Changes by: matthieu@cvs.openbsd.org 2014/09/15 16:25:57

Modified files:
gnu/usr.sbin : Makefile

Log message:
Unlink sendmail from the build. ok krw@ ajacoutot@

Users of OpenSMTPd can rejoice in having no work to do; others will have to install sendmail from packages.

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Fedora made an attempt to remove sendmail from the default desktop and minimal install recently, but the change was blocked. What are your thoughts?

--jeremy

TenTenths · 09-16-2014, 09:58 AM

With pretty much all "user" e-mail services being browser or IMAP based is there a need for an MTA in a desktop?

As for in a minimal install, clue is in the name, minimal with any half decent package manager it should be a trivial task to install it if needed.

jeremy · 09-16-2014, 10:05 AM

Here's a link to the Fedora resolution: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Chang...efaultSendmail

It appears sendmail was removed from @core, but not @standard.

--jeremy

jonasrullo · 09-16-2014, 06:05 PM

I wonder what the numbers are on sendmail installs. I don't install many servers, but I tend to disable or replace sendmail with workalikes at every encounter. Tutorials seem to recommend other MTAs so out it goes.

Jonas.

kooru · 09-17-2014, 06:29 AM

I'd like to find some statistics to know the % of MTAs more used

dugan · 09-19-2014, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by TenTenths

is there a need for an MTA in a desktop?

Yes. Programs like CRON need it to send email to the root account. A default desktop configuration should have an MTA (exim, postfix or sendmail) set up to only do local deliveries. That's how Slackware (Sendmail) and Debian (Exim) are set up by default.