RE: Can you send mail without sendmail?

[Ryan Waldron <rew erebor com>]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Kalum / Grendel wrote:

> > As is the case on a whole bunch of mailing lists, the postfix zealots,
> > in their eagerness to trash sendmail, don't answer the question. :)
> 
> Neither have you answered the question for that matter :P

I wasn't answering the question; I was commenting on the nature of
postfix zealots.  Do you guys take the same drugs or what? :)

> > If you aren't allowed to have services running, then it won't matter
> > whether it's postfix or sendmail running as a service.

> Of course it will matter, assume that you are running sendmail and
> its a buggy version (if you are running sendmail and havent upgraded
> a few days ago then you are open to a root exploit with a local user
> being able to

Umm...tiny clue - if you're NOT allowed to run the daemon, and you
DON'T run it, then it doesn't matter if you have installed the 
sendmail-all-root-exploits.tgz to your source tree.

> Albeight consuming 30mb of ram while idling, hogging the CPU, etc etc
> etc...what a disaster.....

I run sendmail at kansas.erebor.com.  You're a genius, sendmail
sucks, etc.  Have at it.

Put your money where your mouth is - r00t my machine via sendmail or
shut up.

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