On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Greg Olszewski wrote:
> You can still send and recieve email locally without having sendmail
> *running*. It has to be on the machine, but having sendmail running just
> means that it's listening on port 25 for connections. Sendmail has been
> repeatedly found to have buffer overflows and other security holes. For
> a router, I'd turn it off ( I do ).
Do you know of a doc that explains why this is so? According to the way
sockets and daemons were explained to me, it would be impossible. However,
I default to you and would like to quell my ignorance. Maybe there are
others who would like to understand this as well.
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