From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 6 21:09:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA28710 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:09:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from laker.net (jet.laker.net [205.245.74.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA28637 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 21:09:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sfriedri@laker.net) Received: from nt (digital-pbi-164.laker.net [208.0.233.64]) by laker.net (8.9.0/8.9.LAKERNET.NO-SPAM.SPAMMERS.AND.RELAYS.WILL.BE.TRACKED.AND.PROSECUTED.) with SMTP id AAA12006; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 00:08:22 -0400 Message-Id: <199810070408.AAA12006@laker.net> From: "Steve Friedrich" To: "Frank Pawlak" , "Greg Lehey" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 00:07:51 -0400 Reply-To: "Steve Friedrich" X-Mailer: PMMail 98 Professional (2.01.1600) For Windows NT (4.0.1381;3) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Dos and Don'ts Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:24:00 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >There are, of course, problems with every version of mail. I haven't >followed the discussions enough to be able to offer an opinion. As >you say, nearly every installation (including mine) uses sendmail, and >it works well. Others may have some advantages, but I don't see that >as sufficient reason to say "DON'T use sendmail". I believe (I'm certain I'm NOT wrong, but I could be mistaken ;o) ) thatmost people who hate sendmail, do so because it was a well known "hole" in sendmail that was exploited by a little prick who had access to the source, was told about the possible exploit, and wasn't taught to be scrupulous (his parents are the only ones to blame) that resulted in the "Internet Worm". As anyone who has read the resulting analyse of his exploit, it WAS NOT the work of a genius (as figured by the popular press, who don't even know the difference between a hacker and a cracker). The "hole" has since been closd, but as anyone working in a security field can tell you, locks can only keep honest people honest. Unix systems measure "uptime" in years, Winblows measures it in minutes. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message