Re: [MLUG] Critical Vulnerability in Sendmail and a SnortVulnerability

[John Engelbrecht <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I would use qmail, but I couldn't get qmail to work properly,
i had problems with the mbox.

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Mikhail Kovalenko wrote:

> Mike Miller wrote:
> > [long message appended below]
> >
> > Darn it all.  I really don't have time to build and reinstall sendmail at
> > this moment.  I hope to get to it tomorrow.  The new sendmail is here:
> >
> > http://www.sendmail.org/8.12.8.html
> >
> > This is the first time I can remember the new "Department of Homeland
> > Security" making a big stink about a software vulnerability, but I could
> > have missed a few.
> >
> > Mike
> >
>
> I wonder who would even consider sendmail as a viable choice after all its
> history of bugs and vulnerabilities. You'd think it's over, and yet here we go
> again. I could understand why it installed *and* activated in all RedHat
> installations by default (so many people use it and are used to it), but it is
> the first thing to be deleted from all of my machines.
>
> # rpm -e sendmail ;)
>
> It there anything that sendmail can do that nothing else can?
> --
> MK
>
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