As sendmail showed to be so vulnerable in the past, and even in the recent past, I was wondering to propose removing it from the default install on freebsd. Currently, sendmail comes with the system sources, and runs as root. I think this is bad, and it could be replaced with qmail, for example. Or, something else, if you think something else is more secure. Please let me know if this is possible, or why if not, and to whom shall I address this idea (I wonder why it didn't happen yet).
This topic has arisen many times in the past. Basically, it comes down to this: Every MTA has its supporters and detractors; FreeBSD needs to have an MTA; FreeBSD currently has Sendmail. It's simply not worth changing at the moment.
If you want to use qmail, go ahead and install it from the ports tree. At some time in the distant future, when FreeBSD is fully packagized, it's quite likely that Sendmail will be just one of many installable options; but that time hasn't come yet.
Colin Percival
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