Quoting Ian C. Sison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Nice dissection \8), which is more acceptable and believable than simply > citing 'big' institutions and 'maturity' for chosing sendmail, and make it > the basis (among others) for choosing it over other MTAs.
Thanks! > I disagree however with your point that sendmail, and its improvements > done in response to security or performance reasons, is enough to consider > it as a viable MTA solution today. Well, (1) I'm being charitable. People get too worked up over this. ;-> (2) I wouldn't use it, myself: I'm a Sendmail refugee, having switched to Exim, years ago. (I'd be happy with Postfix, I think -- but haven't personally tried it.) > Its track record in security and performance reflects design flaws which > existed from the time it was first deployed, and whatever improvements are > simply 'band-aid' covering up what essentially is a broken design to begin > with. Well, that's exactly the assumption that I'm honestly not sure is true. What remains that's indisputably questionable about its design is being a monolithic binary. (Exim shares this trait with it.) At least in theory, a modular design _should_ be better, at some mild cost in complexity in the form of inter-module structure. But there _was_ at least one major design change: Having spawned instances drop privilege according to role. Ever since then, it hasn't had significant security problems, and I wouldn't expect them. If I were an expert in MUA internals, I could probably comment further, but I'm not, so I won't. We do have one very major area of agreement: Neither one of us would willingly use Sendmail. ;-> (I forgot to mention that there are still some types of rewrite rulesets and delivery modes that only Sendmail can do. For example, UUCP.) -- Cheers, "I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate Rick Moen those who do. And, for the people who like country music, [EMAIL PROTECTED] denigrate means 'put down'." -- Bob Newhart _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
