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Many things other than sendmail itself use the milter API, for example
mail/opendkim from ports. Putting the library in its own package means
those applications don't need to depend on FreeBSD-sendmail.

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ivy requested review of this revision.Fri, Aug 15, 6:04 AM
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sat, Aug 16, 8:44 AM
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The changes look fine with one cosmetic exception: The open source release uses a lower case 's' when referring to 'sendmail'.

You can optionally use the language directly from libmilter/README:

The sendmail Mail Filter API (Milter) is designed to allow third-party
programs access to mail messages as they are being processed in order to
filter meta-information and content.

The changes look fine with one cosmetic exception: The open source release uses a lower case 's' when referring to 'sendmail'.

we refer to it as "Sendmail" in a few other places, so i'll make a new review to fix all of those.

i notice we also don't have a description for the FreeBSD-sendmail package itself (it's currently "Sendmail Utilities") -- is there any particular text you'd suggest for that? otherwise i'll just come up with something. (the idea is to explain the package to users, so it should mention it's an MTA, can send/receive mail, etc.)

i notice we also don't have a description for the FreeBSD-sendmail package itself (it's currently "Sendmail Utilities") -- is there any particular text you'd suggest for that? otherwise i'll just come up with something. (the idea is to explain the package to users, so it should mention it's an MTA, can send/receive mail, etc.)

If you want to use what the documentation states: "Sendmail implements a general purpose internetwork mail routing facility under the UNIX(R) operating system."

I'm betting you will be able to do better. :)