Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:52:32 -0800 From: Claus Assmann <freebsd+current@esmtp.org> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-RC2 informal PR: 90 sec sendmail delay Message-ID: <20030101145232.A391@zardoc.esmtp.org> In-Reply-To: <3E1352BC.4043921B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 12:42:36PM -0800 References: <rgptrg1uzx.trg@localhost.localdomain> <3E1352BC.4043921B@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, Jan 01, 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > I'm not too happy about some of the changes to Sendmail recently, Which? And why? If there are problems, the authors would like to hear about it directly, instead of reading it in some mailing list by accident... > but I understand, from a marketing perspective, why they are > being made, to compete with DJB's security claims on qmail, and > Weitse's claims on seperation of operation on performance (both > claims are bogus, but it's complicated to explain to potential > customers why that's the case). We are not making changes "from a marketing perspective". If you are referring to the separation of sendmail into MTA and MSP: this was necessary to get rid of sendmail being set-user-ID root, which is a security risk (as you will probably agree, this isn't marketing, this is real, e.g., sendmail was abused in some cases to exploit bugs in the OS). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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