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Subject: Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:30:59 +0300
"Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 9/22/07, Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> > >> i personally use only sendmail.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it.
> > >
> > same with any other things :)
> 
> I would prefer to have postfix vs sendmail since it built with
> security in mind

Ditto here. I've switched to postfix after a talk by
Wietse Venema at the SANE 1998:
  http://www.sane.nl/events/sane98/daily/19/venema.html
(postfix was still named VMailer back then)
and never looked back since. I was lucky doing so, because
soon after, there had been a flurry of sendmail exploits,
while postfix kept chugging along undisturbed. But more
importantly, its behaviour under stress and huge traffic
bursts is excellent.

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