Am 17.10.2001 um 14:53:56 -0600 schrieb William D. Colburn (aka Schlake) folgendes:
> Sendmail hasn't been a scary beast in many years. Yes, sendmail has a
Sendmail had many remote exploits in the past years.
> is all in the past. The new sendmail is maintained by competent
> programmers who are trying to provide a first class MTA/MSA.
Who managed to build-in some more exploits (local ones, though).
> hasn't been a scary beast in many years, but the way people install it
> still is.
Definitely. Example: HP's installation has still 8.9.3
> putting "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q15m" onto every machine, just put
> "/usr/lib/sendmail -q15m". The server will run to process the queue,
Correct.
> The new sendmail does not need to be suid root anymore. It can be an
> unpriviledged program and still work properly.
A concept cleverly copied from Postfix BTW.
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