From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 12:32:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F11F37B401 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:32:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao08.cox.net (lakemtao08.cox.net [68.1.17.113]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9C2443FBD for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 12:32:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.11]) by lakemtao08.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.05 201-253-122-122-105-20011231) with ESMTP id <20030626193222.QVEH7627.lakemtao08.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:32:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 14:32:20 -0500 To: Alin-Adrian Anton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed References: <3EF94580.90001@reversedhell.net> From: Jeremy Messenger MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3EF94580.90001@reversedhell.net> User-Agent: Opera7.11/Linux M2 build 406 cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: replacing sendmail with qmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:32:25 -0000 On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:47:28 +0300, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: > Hi guys, > > As sendmail showed to be so vulnerable in the past, and even in the > recent past, I was wondering to propose removing it from the default > install on freebsd. Currently, sendmail comes with the system sources, > and runs as root. I think this is bad, and it could be replaced with > qmail, for example. Or, something else, if you think something else is > more secure. Please let me know if this is possible, or why if not, and > to whom shall I address this idea (I wonder why it didn't happen yet). It is possible to delete the sendmail and replace to the different MTA on your own. To not have or change the different MTA by default in FreeBSD isn't going to happen anytime soon, anyway. I would love to see to get rid of sendmail too, thought. I don't have Sendmail in my server, which it has been replaced to qmail and sometime I want to try to replace from BIND to djb's libdjbdns. If anyone want to get rid of BIND, Sendmail and etc by default, the only way that I can see at the moment is.... *cough* fork FreeBSD *cough*.. or wait until libh project finishes or in future version of FreeBSD like 6.0, 7.0, 8.0 or so (maybe never).. Cheers, Mezz > Best Regards, > Alin. -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.