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Date:      Sun, 17 Nov 1996 17:16:36 -0800 (PST)
From:      batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
To:        imp@village.org (Warner Losh)
Cc:        adam@homeport.org, pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co, freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2).
Message-ID:  <m0vPIKD-0008rpC@agora.rdrop.com>
In-Reply-To: <E0vPHuF-0003Re-00@rover.village.org> from "Warner Losh" at Nov 17, 96 05:49:47 pm

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> Sendmail is well understood and well maintained with a very long track
> record.  Other mailers, no matter how much better, don't match this
> track record.

Yup, sendmail has a long track record of the "security hole of the month";
I've yet to see one for smail.  I would like to switch to sendmail, as I
hear it deals with mail queues a lot better these days, and smail
development seems to have gone into a black hole, but until sendmail can
make it a whole month or two without a CERT advisory on it...

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