Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:16:36 -0800 (PST) From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: adam@homeport.org, 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: <m0vPIKD-0008rpC@agora.rdrop.com> In-Reply-To: <E0vPHuF-0003Re-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Nov 17, 96 05:49:47 pm
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> 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. Yup, sendmail has a long track record of the "security hole of the month"; I've yet to see one for smail. I would like to switch to sendmail, as I hear it deals with mail queues a lot better these days, and smail development seems to have gone into a black hole, but until sendmail can make it a whole month or two without a CERT advisory on it... -- Alan Batie ______ batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Assimilate this! +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Worf, First Contact DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.
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