From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 10:48:23 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72FB37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.one2netmail.co.ug (mail.one2netmail.co.ug [216.250.215.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC80A43F3F for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ziggy@one2net.co.ug) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.one2netmail.co.ug (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71E3868D44; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:49:15 +0300 (EAT) Received: from mail.one2netmail.co.ug ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.one2netmail.co.ug [127.0.0.1:10024]) (amavisd-new) with ESMTP id 33840-09; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:49:05 +0300 (EAT) Received: from one2net.co.ug (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.one2netmail.co.ug (Postfix) with SMTP id CBDC568CF2; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:49:04 +0300 (EAT) Received: from 216.250.215.27 (SquirrelMail authenticated user ziggy@one2net.co.ug) by webmail.sanyutel.com with HTTP; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:49:04 +0300 (EAT) Message-ID: <61371.216.250.215.27.1054576144.squirrel@webmail.sanyutel.com> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 20:49:04 +0300 (EAT) From: To: In-Reply-To: <20030602170718.GU294@silverwraith.com> References: <20030602170718.GU294@silverwraith.com> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.2) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new cc: security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Exim as default MTA? X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 17:48:23 -0000 If you are not installing the MTA for them school them about the history of sendmail and other MTA's, dont make it long and boring , just for schooling purposes, touch each MTA and explain why each is used and not used if you can get into that nitty gritty detail. If you are installing the MTA for them i would suggest you go with Exim or Postfix they have proved to be very good and easy to get along with while secure also. cheers David > Yes, I've been reading /. :) > But this isn't the first time this has occured to me. > > With all the security vulnerbilties, would it be unreasonable to either > change the default MTA from sendmail to Exim/Qmail/Postfix, or give > people the option of installing something instead of Sendmail at > install time? > > -- > Avleen Vig "Say no to cheese-eating > surrender-monkeys" Systems Admin "Fast, Good, Cheap. > Pick any two." > www.silverwraith.com "Move BSD. For great justice!" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"