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Date:      Sat, 18 Jan 1997 18:39:40 -0700 (MST)
From:      Stephen Fisher <lithium@cia-g.com>
To:        "Sean J. Schluntz" <schluntz@pinpt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
Subject:   Re: sendmail running non-root SUCCESS! 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.970118183715.21074C-100000@maslow.cia-g.com>
In-Reply-To: <Chameleon.853375953.List@journeyman>

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I would like to use a mailer which I feel is better designed and
programmed (security wise) but.... Since everyone uses Sendmail and
everyone is hacking away at it I feel I'm pretty safe.  Security problems
are fixed quickly and without problems.  And it's assumed you're using
sendmail: when people work on "anti-spam" things they have sendmail
rulesets to do it.

Write a new mailer that has the power and functionality of Sendmail
without the problems and uses sendmail.cf's format and I'll use it.

On Wed, 15 Jan 1997, Sean J. Schluntz wrote:

> > Anyone can use any mailer they want, the real discussion has never been to
> > choose between one or the other but what should be standard (i.e. in
> > /usr/src).
> 
> Just to stick my nose in on this one for a moment.  I would in the past, now, 
> and will continue to vote for sendmail.  Just because another projgram is 
> newer does not mean that it is any easer to crack, it just means that the 
> holes have not been discovered yet.  sendmail is not my favorit to work on, 
> but I will never trade it for anything else.




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