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From: Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu>
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Subject: Re: remove dma
Date: Mon, 05 May 2025 21:37:39 -0300
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Bud Frede <frede@mouse-potato.com> writes:

> Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> writes:
>
>> On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 01:02:20 -0300, Ethan Carter wrote:
>>
>>> Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:25:38 +0200, Marco Moock wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 27.04.2025 15:21 Uhr Bob Eager wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> See if /usr/local/etc/mail/mailer.conf exists. That will override
>>>>>> /etc/
>>>>>> mail/mailer.conf, which normally points to sendmail.
>>>>> 
>>>>> /etc/mail/mailer.conf was the issue as it pointed to dma.
>>>>> I replaced it with /usr/share/examples/sendmail, seems to work.
>>>>
>>>> Glad it worked!
>>> 
>>> Glad it worked!  I confess I didn't like the news either.  To be even
>>> more honest, I prefer qmail.  Now that it's public domain, I find it
>>> curious that people don't use it and maintain it.  It's so simple and so
>>> beautiful.
>>
>> I've been using postfix for many years. Absolutely solid, and this is a 
>> net facing server.
>
> I was around for the flamewars between DJB and Wietse Venema. :-)

Would you be able to recover the whole discussion?  I'd like to go
through it.

> I did like qmail, but it got rather stagnant after Dan moved on to
> other things. I started using Postfix and found that I really liked
> it.

What's there to continue, though, beyond the patches that people wrote?
I'm running qmail with TLS, SPF and DKIM.  I don't adhere to DMARC, but
I wouldn't in any other case.