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Nicolas Mailhot Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Sun Oct 31 09:23:33 UTC 2004


Le samedi 30 octobre 2004 à 21:28 -0400, Paul Iadonisi a écrit :
> On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 21:07, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Even in the default case postfix is better. You can run it more  
> > securely in a chroot jail than you can sendmail, and it's security  
> > record isn't nearly as blemished as sendmail.
> 
>   That blemished past is pretty far in the past.  The number of security
> holes per year has dramatically decreased in recent years.  Note that it
> used to be measured in holes/week, but take a look at www.sendmail.org
> and you'll see that the last hole was over a year ago.  So it's a matter
> of preference, really.  But I'm hoping this doesn't turn into an all-out
> 'my-MTA-is-better-than-yours' religious war.  Please let's endeavor to
> not let that happen.

Even if the sendmail codebase finaly reached the quality of its
competitors that's no reason to inflict sendmail conf files on users.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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