Bug 261536
| Summary: | Need handbook documentation for dma(8) | ||
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| Product: | Documentation | Reporter: | Ed Maste <emaste> |
| Component: | Books & Articles | Assignee: | Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | CC: | bapt, carlavilla, doc, jamie, pauamma, ronald-lists |
| Priority: | --- | ||
| Version: | Latest | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
| See Also: |
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208263 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=248563 |
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| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 263315 | ||
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Description
Ed Maste
2022-01-28 17:52:40 UTC
One related note, from the mailing list discussion on hackers and current: On Thu, 27 Jan 2022 at 20:10, Jamie Landeg-Jones <jamie catflap org> wrote: > > It works perfectly. I've been using it for many years. It doesn't run as > a daemon - if a message can't be delivered (e.g. smarthost temporarily > unavailable), it will be requeued, and the process exits. > > Don't forget to add the cron entry to retry requeued entries! > > */30 * * * * root /usr/libexec/dma -q > > Thus was my only minor "gotcha" - it wasn't obvious from the man pages > to add the cron entry (or maybe I just missed it) (In reply to Ed Maste from comment #1) Because of the same mail I was inspired to create bug #261532. Might be nice to keep these in sync. If you have a different/better implementation I'm open for it. michael.osipov at siemens.com pointed out on the mailing list that some applications only talk smtp to send mail: > It is not that easy just too look at ports. I give you three examples > from work: > > 1. Zabbix (network monitoring), suppports only SMTP, although PHP > supports sendmail(8) > 2. JavaMail Transport implementation exists only for SMTP, I was not > able to find any transport implementation for sendmail(8). Maybe I will > write one for fun. > 3. Python mail package supports SMTP only, no other package available, > at least AFAIK. > > Unless ecosystems provide impls for sendmail(8) I see it very hard to > live without localhost:25 for many cases. (In reply to Jamie Landeg-Jones from comment #3) That may make completely replacing sendmail with dma inadvisable in these and similar use cases, but not everyone will be affected by these restrictions and I think documenting dma is a desirable goal by itself. Since FreeBSD 14 is so close, I`m gonna make a jump and go directly to Electronic Mail chapter to have this documented on time. A commit in branch main references this bug: URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/doc/commit/?id=04c7892a0e2d0570b6fa111efd2e62833b4febc4 commit 04c7892a0e2d0570b6fa111efd2e62833b4febc4 Author: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> AuthorDate: 2023-10-09 11:04:26 +0000 Commit: Sergio Carlavilla Delgado <carlavilla@FreeBSD.org> CommitDate: 2023-10-09 11:04:26 +0000 Handbook - Mail: Upgrade mail chapter Upgrade mail chapter as part of the handbook working group Changes: * Include dma info * Upgrade sendmail info * Show how to change dma to use another MTA * Show how to change sendmail to use another MTA * Remove Dialup info * Remove fetchmail info * Reorg the sections of the chapter Documentation: * https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=dma * https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Dma_Dragonfly_Mail_Agent * https://www.dragonflybsd.org/handbook/mta/ * https://herrbischoff.com/2021/10/freebsd-13-simple-outgoing-email-with-dma/ * https://jpmens.net/2020/03/05/simple-solution-for-outgoing-mail-from-a-freebsd-system/ * https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dma * https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/dma-makes-sense.52219/ PR: 261536 Reviewed by: bapt, bcr, dbaio, jrm Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D42009 Sponsored by: Daifressh .../content/en/books/handbook/mail/_index.adoc | 1181 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 513 insertions(+), 668 deletions(-) |