From owner-freebsd-security Sun Nov 17 22:12:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA14286 for security-outgoing; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:12:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA14245 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 22:11:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA13585 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 07:11:15 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id HAA08165 for freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 07:10:46 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.2/keltia-uucp-2.9) id GAA23325; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 06:59:35 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: 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). References: <328F95E2.611C@ingenieria.ingsala.unal.edu.co> <199611180005.TAA09457@homeport.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.50.05 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2686 In-Reply-To: <199611180005.TAA09457@homeport.org>; from Adam Shostack on Nov 17, 1996 19:05:45 -0500 Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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