Re: system packages

["David LANDGREN" <david_(_dot_)_landgren_(_at_)_bpinet_(_dot_)_com>]

|and DNS. Now I want to add Qmail (sendmail is too insecure) but I have to
|compile the source for it. I did not install any compilers when I did the
|install. I check the faqs and stuff and I thought I had it with the
pkg_add
|but the documentation says that it can not be used for installing system
|distribution packages.

Is qmail not the program that has the weird licensing scheme whereby you
may only install binary versions, the source isn't distributed?

Otherwise, why don't you take a look at postfix, which is designed to be a
much closer sendmail drop-in replacement.

/usr/ports/mail/postfix or http://www.postfix.org/

David
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