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Bug 359551 - ebuild request: DragonFly Mail Agent - mail-mta/dma
Summary: ebuild request: DragonFly Mail Agent - mail-mta/dma
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal enhancement
Assignee: Default Assignee for New Packages
URL: http://gitorious.org/dma
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 422957 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-03-19 19:48 UTC by Stefano Balocco
Modified: 2025-01-19 15:14 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Stefano Balocco 2011-03-19 19:48:01 UTC
dma is a small Mail Transport Agent (MTA), designed for home and office use. It accepts mails from locally installed Mail User Agents (MUA) and delivers the mails either locally or to a remote destination.  Remote delivery includes several features like TLS/SSL support and SMTP authentication.

dma is not intended as a replacement for real, big MTAs like sendmail(8) or postfix(1).  Consequently, dma does not listen on port 25 for incoming connections.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge dma
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dma".

Expected Results:  
>>> Emerging (1 of 1) mail-mta/dma

GIT Repository: http://gitorious.org/dma
Man page: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/cgi/web-man?command=dma&section=8
Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-06-22 14:15:38 UTC
*** Bug 422957 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-02-13 23:10:09 UTC
an ebuild: https://github.com/slashbeast/foo-overlay/tree/master/mail-mta/dma

A link to git instead of attachments as I do poke around it so the content may change before anyone decide to include it into tree.
Comment 3 Matthew Thode ( prometheanfire ) archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2013-09-12 07:17:35 UTC
I don't see any activity in their git repo :(
Comment 4 Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2013-09-12 14:23:03 UTC
What repo? dma got moar commits two months ago.
Comment 5 Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-01-04 20:25:53 UTC
*Friendly bump*

dma is still active, last commit in september 2014. Even Debian got a dma in thier repositories. ;-)
Comment 6 Piotr Karbowski (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2015-07-05 15:29:10 UTC
*friendly bump*
Comment 7 hal 2017-09-05 14:37:35 UTC
Has there been any progress in getting an ebuild into the tree? According to the repo upstream, the project seems to be active: https://github.com/corecode/dma
Comment 8 Guenther Brunthaler 2025-01-19 15:14:38 UTC
(In reply to hal from comment #7)
> the repo upstream, the project seems to be active:
> https://github.com/corecode/dma

Update: I just noted a commit from 2025 there!

So upstream is definitely not dead, even though the project seems to be in "maitenance mode".

OTOH, the program is finished. What else is there left to do.

I really love the fact that dma does not need a running daemon. I have used it for years on Debian for local-only mail delivery.

I don't even let it run as a cron job. It delivers mail immediately when invoked as "sendmail", so why even bothering checking the mail queue periodically.

Works like a charm.