Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:12:03 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@squiz.co.nz> To: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> Cc: Renaud Waldura <rwaldura@LIGOS.COM>, "'Didier Derny'" <didier@omnix.net>, "'freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: qmail/ezmlm Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980902120717.596J-100000@aniwa.sky> In-Reply-To: <19980901141936.G1202@enteract.com>
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On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, dannyman wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:21:36AM -0700, Renaud Waldura wrote: > > > Cons: migrating from sendmail is not totally pain-free, especially in > > userland. The "mailbox" model is different (no /var/mail/user), and hence > > MUAs need to be either reconfigured or -gasp- recompiled. The documentation > > tries to help, but it could be more elaborated. > > procmail delivery kicks butt, and there's a utility to honor .forward files, > one of it's bugs being that it's more stable than sendmail. :) Has anyone investigated the buffer overflow problems in procmail? I saw a recent message about buffer overflows from the command line which looked to be exploitable. Not suid, so probably not important. It would be a different case if these could be reached by a specially constructed email sent to a machine using procmail as a local delivery agent. Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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