replacing sendmail with qmail

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:47:28 +0300, Alin-Adrian Anton 
<aanton at reversedhell.net> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> As sendmail showed to be so vulnerable in the past, and even in the 
> recent past, I was wondering to propose removing it from the default 
> install on freebsd. Currently, sendmail comes with the system sources, 
> and runs as root. I think this is bad, and it could be replaced with 
> qmail, for example. Or, something else, if you think something else is 
> more secure. Please let me know if this is possible, or why if not, and 
> to whom shall I address this idea (I wonder why it didn't happen yet).

It is possible to delete the sendmail and replace to the different MTA on 
your own. To not have or change the different MTA by default in FreeBSD 
isn't going to happen anytime soon, anyway. I would love to see to get rid 
of sendmail too, thought. I don't have Sendmail in my server, which it has 
been replaced to qmail and sometime I want to try to replace from BIND to 
djb's libdjbdns.

If anyone want to get rid of BIND, Sendmail and etc by default, the only 
way that I can see at the moment is.... *cough* fork FreeBSD *cough*.. or 
wait until libh project finishes or in future version of FreeBSD like 6.0, 
7.0, 8.0 or so (maybe never)..

Cheers,
Mezz


> Best Regards,
> Alin.


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