Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:49:47 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org> Cc: pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2). Message-ID: <E0vPHuF-0003Re-00@rover.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 17 Nov 1996 19:05:45 EST." <199611180005.TAA09457@homeport.org> References: <199611180005.TAA09457@homeport.org>
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In message <199611180005.TAA09457@homeport.org> Adam Shostack writes: : My suggestion was meant to imply the possibility of removing : sendmail from the FreeBSD distribution, and only shipping qmail. I think that would be ill-advised. There are many other good, worthy mailers than just sendmail and qmail (exim and smail come to mind). Sendmail is well understood and well maintained with a very long track record. Other mailers, no matter how much better, don't match this track record. Or more succinctly: Better the devil you know... Warner
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