Quoting Ariz Jacinto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> their mentality: "if it is secured but not popular, then how would i know?"
By providing the desired functionality without reliability or security
problems. Seems to me that's one of the benefits of this event that it
solves the exact problem you've just described.
Occasionally, you'll find some businessman who wants you to install an
MTA to forward outbound SMTP mail to the outside ISP's smarthost. So,
you start putting in nullmailer, a program designed to do exactly that
and no more, with minimum code and privilege -- and the customer
suddenly asks you to justify not using sendmail (which, unlike
nullmailer, he's heard of). After all, sendmail is popular, supported
by a commercial company, known to everyone, and capable of doing
everything an MTA could be asked to do.
So, you explain (not in so many words, of course!) that sendmail's very
flexibility and extremely large feature set are some of the very things
you're aiming to avoid, and that if he were such an expert in Internet
software, he wouldn't have needed to engage your services.
If the businessman really thinks that he needs to use "popular" brand
names to get system security, then he hasn't suffered enough, yet, and
even sendmail is too good for him: He should be forced to suffer MS
Exchange Server for a few more years. ;->
> so, let's take redhat as a challenge and not a hindrance.
For a challenge, try NT, instead. ;->
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