On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:46:18PM -0400, Kurth Bemis wrote:
>
> Ah - i see your problem. your running sendmail. :-) gotta love those
> cryptic, gotta-upgrade-every-two-days, monolithic MTAs :-)
I really have to ask, no flames intended or desired, what makes you
say this? Sendmail has not had a major security bug in over 2 years,
and even then it was in vendor-specific releases (which invariably are
outdated, and most of which are from SCO). The m4 macro configuration
makes it anything but cryptic; though it is still not simple, but
sendmail is not a simple program. It handles the transport of mail
between a wide variety of transport agents, including DECNET, UUCP,
SMTP, and others.
Upgrade every two days? I've been running 8.9.3 for two YEARS. I
don't understand this comment.
As for it being monolithic, huh? So what? The bottom line is it
works.
So, what's the problem? What's so bad about Sendmail?
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