Re: Retire mta_start_script

Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.architechture
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 07:18:03AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 04:00:50PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > 
> > I do plan on retiring mta_start_script and what goes with it:
> > - /etc/rc.d/othermta
> > 
> > the othermta mecanism (calling mta_start_script if defined to something
> > different than /etc/rc.sendmail)
> > 
> > As far as I am aware all mta in the ports tree are not using this mecanism.
> > 
> > I do plan on just retiring all of this for FreeBSD 14.0.
> > 
> > If no argumented objections is made, I will retire next week.
> > 
> 
> What are the effects on the in-tree sendmail?  Are you planning
> to remove it as well?

0 effect on the in-tree sendmail which does not use this at all but uses
rc.d/sendmail for the last 20 years or so.

No I have no plan to remove sendmail yet, at least not for 14.0.

Best regards,
Bapt
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