Using sendmail or sendmail from the ports?

[HL1234]

Hello,
I'm new here. I hope You will understand my english

I do install a new small server with eMail connected direkt to the internet. I want to use sendmail, because it is the best email server known by me.

Sendmail ships with FreeBSD in any Verison or can be fresh install form the ports:

sendmail-8.14.4_2                  /usr/ports/mail/sendmail 
sendmail+tls+sasl2+ldap-8.14.4_2   /usr/ports/mail/sendmail-ldap
sendmail+tls+sasl2-8.14.4_2        /usr/ports/mail/sendmail-sasl

My question is: should I use the sendmail version, which ships with the OS, or should I better do a fresh install form the ports (I guess I have to reinstall it anyway, because I like to have sasl and ssl support, too). Which one is easier to keep up to date?

Thank You for Your tips
Harald

 

[sk8harddiefast]

This will update your ports tree

portsnap fetch update

and

portmaster -a

will install the updates. Probably because will exist an update of sendmail, will update sendmail too, from any version to the latest. If you want to do a fresh install why not? You know better.

 

[HL1234]

Hello
and thanx for Your answer. The idea is to have sendmail with SMTP Authentication (and some more).
In the "handbook" (28.10 SMTP Authentication) it's written:

5.Recompile sendmail by executing the following commands:

# cd /usr/src/lib/libsmutil
# make cleandir && make obj && make
# cd /usr/src/lib/libsm
# make cleandir && make obj && make
# cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/sendmail
# make cleandir && make obj && make && make install

but I can also compile sendmail new from the ports:

in /usr/ports/mail/sendmail-sasl/

it will give me: sendmail+tls+sasl2-8.14.4_2

So the question is - What is the best way to do it? And in addition to keep in mind that sometimes to have to make an update.

And second, how to set some flags like LDAPMAP, USE_LDAP_INIT for compiling?
In

/usr/ports/mail/sendmail-sasl #>make config

it says:

"==> No options to configure"

 

[phil10]

If /usr/ports/mail/sendmail-sasl/ is what you want, i would go for the ports installation.

It's easily upgradeable with any ports management tool that way.