Havard Eidnes <he@netbsd.org> writes:
> To get outgoing e-mail going, you need to enable both sendmail and
> smmsp (or start running postfix, which I don't think has a mode to
> handle "just outgoing e-mail").

Of course postfix can. Just disable the smtp daemon from listening on
port 25 -- you comment out one line in master.cf.

> Am I the only one who finds the implicit removal of the "outbound
> e-mail works out of the box" feature Highly Annoying?

No, you're not. There are open PRs that would be fixed if this was
fixed.

Perry