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Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:52:58AM +0000, 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. > > Wasn't Eric Allman (sendmail author) one of the people with the most CERT > advisories against his software ever? After Paul Vixie, IIRC. > > Even if you do really need weird and wonderful protocols, you can use postfix, > and I wouldn't be surprised if Exim supported them too. Both of them have > disadantages, though, when compared to sendmail; for example, it's nearly > impossible to get a working postfix configuration by catting /dev/random, but > quite easy with sendmail. ;) Isn't "catting /dev/random'" how Apple name their releases? W -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html