Pardon my new-ness, but why is sendmail is pkgsrc if its also
in the main src tree?

I tend to build it from scratch ANYHOW, just to get LDAP, SASL,
and, er, hesiod support (virtusertables in hesiod/dns is just
easy to manage on multiple machines; not recommended for the
squeemish).

Quoting Andrew Brown (atatat@atatdot.net):
> >> >Yes, but no one seems to have taken on the job of doing that, which
> >> >makes me wonder if anyone is, in fact, going to do that.
> >> 
> >> of course it's easier to say "no, don't do that" than "stop, i will do
> >> that".  the fact that no one is stepping up to do the "write" thing
> >> doesn't (imho) make it right to do the wrong thing.
> >
> >As a practical matter, it is now very difficult to use NetBSD as the
> >mail server for mobile clients that need to use the SMTP AUTH
> >extensions. That's a serious problem.
> 
> i think that's where pkgsrc comes in.  it's a little more "agile" than
> the base system.  the postfix from pkgsrc can use sasl.  i dunno about
> the sendmail in pkgsrc.
> 
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