I'd be just as happy seeing freebsd drop having an SMTP server in the base system entirely. Having an LDA->SMTP client in base makes sense, but an entire mailserver in the base system?

What percentage of freebsd installs are for dedicated mailservers? If that's even less than 80% (and I presume it's below 1%), having "install it from Ports" being the first step still makes sense.

But then I feel the same way about BIND (and now unbound)