We need a new subject- bug fixes
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 15:53:17 UTC 2007
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>> You keep harping that Sendmail should accept incoming mail by
>>> default,
>> I'm not sure I've ever said exactly that, but you keep saying I said it
>> for some reason. I'm saying enabling or disabling its access to the
>> network should be handled the way the distribution handles other programs.
>>
> Aren't you the Les that keeps saying that the supplied config is
> broken because it does not accept incoming network connections?
What if everyone ran this configuration?
> If
> it is not going to be accepting incoming mail, then why would it
> need to accept network connections? Am I missing another reason why
> Sendmail would need to accept incoming network connections? (Outside
> of making it easier to crack if a bug is found?)
Not everyone has this same limited configuration. If your machine don't
have any scsi drives would you argue that the distribution shouldn't
include support for them?
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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