1comment = "sendmail mail transport agent" 2desc = <<EOD 3The sendmail mail transport agent allows the system to send and receive mail 4for both local and remote users. sendmail can also act as a mail exchanger 5for other hosts, and has a flexible configuration format that can be used to 6rewrite, filter or otherwise process mail before delivering it. 7 8sendmail supports multiple mail transport protocols, including Internet SMTP, 9LMTP, UUCP and DECnet. Support for protocols other than SMTP and LMTP needs 10third-party software not shipped with the base system. 11 12When the full functionality of sendmail is not required, consider using the 13$PKG_NAME_PREFIX-dma package instead, a lightweight MTA which can send (but 14not receive) mail over SMTP. 15EOD 16