Fedora Core 2 wishlists
Chris Ricker
kaboom at gatech.edu
Wed Dec 10 13:32:51 UTC 2003
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Chris Adams wrote:
> Once upon a time, Daniel Roesen <dr at cluenet.de> said:
> > - Postfix default MTA, probably get rid of sendmail altogether
>
> Don't get rid of sendmail unless you've got something to replace it.
> Last I looked, postfix cannot replace sendmail on my servers, although
> it is a lot better than qmail (gag!).
Out of curiosity, why not?
> What is the bias against sendmail? Don't give me security history; how
> many security holes have there been in OpenSSL, OpenSSH, Apache, the
> Linux kernel, rsync, etc. over the last couple of years? Now, how many
> in sendmail? I don't see people ranting to replace OpenSSH because they
> recently had several security releases in less than a week.
Postfix is a viable alternative to sendmail with a much better security
history and architecture. These other projects don't have secure usable
replacements.
later,
chris
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