I wrote:

># * Qmail is probably also more inviting to hackers, just because it's more
># human.

#I really doubt it.  If you were a hacker, would you go after the SMTP
#daemon with a long, documented history of successful exploits, with
#exploit code available on the Web, or the one with no history of
#successful exploits?

>The 1000 dollar reward for hacking qmail was never claimed

Both good points.
But sendmail is also a worldwide standard ...
After all, it's not _easy_ to hack sendmail, the hacks are
just publically available.

Anyway, qmail is for now proven to be
much more safe than sendmail.
Point for you.

[snip]
># Sendmail, after all, was working fine.
>until the next security hole is found....

:-) Very true.

cu
*PIKE*



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