On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:37:21AM +1300, Gregory McGarry wrote:
  | Way back on October 17, Jason R Thorpe commented:
  | 
  | > That said, I am beginning to think that the appropriate solution would
  | > be for NetBSD to provide no default mailer except for possibly a dead-
  | > simple one which provided for basic local delivery and simple forwarding
  | > to a remote host (e.g. most of my NetBSD machines are configured to simply
  | > send all mail to my mail server ... and using either sendmail *or* postfix
  | > is a little heavy-handed for that).
  | 
  | I agree with this comment.  I've only ever configured one mail server
  | and usually just forward mail from all machines onto the central
  | server.
  | 
  | Since October I have been running a hacked version of mini_sendmail
  | 1.3.1.  It is written by Jef Poskanzer with a BSD licence.  It's
  | primarily intended to run in a chroot'ed environment to feed mail back
  | into the same machine.  But it works well as a send-only MTA.  It has
  | IP6 support and its only deficiency is that it doesn't handle local
  | mail.
  | 
  | mini_sendmail could serve as the base for a light-weight, forward-only
  | MTA which would allow sendmail, postfix, etc to be pushed into pkgsrc.

Do you have a URL describing this tool?


FWIW: I agree that having a non functional "/etc/mailer.conf"
`out of the box' is not an optimal solution.