Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Mon Oct 26 19:32:18 UTC 2009

In response to Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com>:

> It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail.
> How many people actually use it? Very few.

Quite a lot.  In fact, anyone who properly installs FreeBSD as a server.

> Why isn't it moved to ports?

Because an MTA has traditionally been part of a POSIX system.

Besides, if it's not there, how are you going to send mail from things
like cron?

Bill Moran

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