We need a new subject- bug fixes

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> The way to get security is to make the system consistent and easily
> understandable.  If users need to hand-edit complex config files for
> common operations you haven't accomplished that.  How, for example,
> would you advise a user to check for whether sendmail was active on the
> network or not, and how to change it?  Why should this differ from what
> you'd say about dovecot?  If every program is a special case, few people
> are going to understand the system well enough to keep it secure.
> 
So you are saying that configuring Sendmail is too complicated for
the average user. A good reason not to use Sendmail as the default
mail program. Postfix might be a better choice. Configuring it is
more like configuring most other services. Configuring Sendmail is
more like programming then configuring a service. Changing this wold
requiring rewriting Sendmail.

Mikkel
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