Sendmail and security
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sun Jan 22 13:58:47 UTC 2006
Anne Wilson wrote:
> A user of another distro has remarked that I should uninstall sendmail.
> <quote> Sendmail simply has too many security issues to leave it on any
> machine. </quote>
>
> Surely a box kept up to date would not have those security issues. Am I
> missing something?
Only if RH is:-)
It's still the default MTA installed by Red Hat's installer.
I don't use it myself, but that's to do with ease of configuration and
the fact I was using Debian for a while, where sendmail was broken and
unlikely to get fixed any time soon, so I switched to postfix which I like.
sendmail has an enormous share of the "market" - it can't be _that_ bad.
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Cheers
John
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