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

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

> 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?

MTA's are a bitch in general. We should move on to lighter weight IM-style
protocols. I've yet to see any MTA that wasn't a total pain in the ass
(though I've only used like half a dozen different ones).
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