From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Sep 1 17:15:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA24762 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:15:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from aniwa.sky (aniwa.actrix.gen.nz [203.96.56.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA24745 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:14:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Received: from localhost (andrew@localhost) by aniwa.sky (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA25439; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:12:03 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from andrew@squiz.co.nz) Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:12:03 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton X-Sender: andrew@aniwa.sky Reply-To: andrew@squiz.co.nz To: dannyman cc: Renaud Waldura , "'Didier Derny'" , "'freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: Re: qmail/ezmlm In-Reply-To: <19980901141936.G1202@enteract.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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