Re: Secure popen

From: Kai Schulte (kaiat_private-essen.de)
Date: Wed Jun 20 2001 - 01:48:43 PDT

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    On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
    
    > DON'T DO THIS !
    > Why you must run sendmail ?
    > Why don't you simply create a SMTP connection
    
    Maybe the web server isn't running an smtp daemon.  But even if it is,
    why is it safer to send everything through the tcp/ip stack and have
    sendmail fork a copy of itself than to invoke it directly?
    
    If you don't know anything about the local host's mailer or you can
    deliver straight to the the recipient's host, your idea is the best, of
    course. (And if all recipients are local, you even have the option of
    invoking the local delivery agent directly... or just locking
    their mail files and appending to them ;)
    
    Kai
    



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