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On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 01:34:59PM +0000, William Fidell wrote: > > > 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? Indeed. 10.6 will be called "Tibbles". -- 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