On 07/25/2002 06:28 PM, did Suresh Ramasubramanian write (doodah! doodah!): > "Sudhakar Chandra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Friday, July 26, 2002 1:02 AM): >>Bull! Postfix was designed group-up to be secure. Compare the Bugtraq >>security advisories about sendmail against those about postfix. > Sendmail has gotten rid of a lot of the old baggage it used to carry till > 8.8.x (and a little of 8.9).
OK, I'll bite.... One item of the baggage Sendmail still has not gotten rid of is the butt ugly configuration. Apart from bakward compatibility, is there ANY reason why sendmail.cf is so cryptic? > Postfix is far newer, and has kind of learned from the mistakes sendmail > found out and fixed. I'm not talking about security holes in Sendmail from 10+ years ago. I'm talking about security holes in sendmail as recent as 3-4 years ago. Thaths -- Marge: Homer, no! You'll kill us all. Homer: Or die trying! thaths at aunet.org Slacker At Large http://www.aunet.org/~thaths/ Key fingerprint = 8A 84 2E 67 10 9A 64 03 24 38 B6 AB 1B 6E 8C E4 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
