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Re: [LUG] Sendmail experts - any idea what happening to my mail?

 

Neil Stone wrote:
> On Tue, October 30, 2007 08:52, Simon Waters wrote:
>> James Fidell wrote:
>>> I used to hack sendmail a lot when it was pretty much the only game in
>>> town so don't have the aversion to it that many people do...
>> They were still discovering whole new classes of vulnerabilities in
>> sendmail when I gave it up.
>>
>> I have an aversion, and use to run it, for me it wasn't a case of lack
>> of familiarity, just that better alternatives exist, and I no longer
>> needed to network with uucp mail hosts and other such historical mail
>> systems.
> 
> Does RHEL still use sendmail ?

Sendmail is still the default, I think, though configured so that it
will only accept email from localhost.  Exim and postfix are both
available in the base RPM repository.

James

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