Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 06:59:34 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2). Message-ID: <Mutt.19961118065934.roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> In-Reply-To: <199611180005.TAA09457@homeport.org>; from Adam Shostack on Nov 17, 1996 19:05:45 -0500 References: <328F95E2.611C@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co> <199611180005.TAA09457@homeport.org>
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According to Adam Shostack:
> planning to replace sendmail with qmail real soon, and that helps me a
> lot. My suggestion was meant to imply the possibility of removing
> sendmail from the FreeBSD distribution, and only shipping qmail.
I'd strongly object to this. In addition of what Warner said I must add
that qmail's UUCP support is noneexitent or rather anti-UUCP in the sense
that it generates multiple messages when a mail has multiple recipient.
I manage several mailing-lists on my home machine and am the administrator
of another one with lots of UUCP users and qmail is unusable.
I still can't bear the configuration system of qmail (lots of .qmail-mumble
everywhere, user defined mailing-lists that can't be disabled) and the
author's attitude in general[1] (but that's another problem).
[1] like pretending that sending 300 messages with 1 recipient is smaller
than sending 1 mail with 300 recipients by UUCP.
--
Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #28: Sun Nov 10 13:37:41 MET 1996
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