sendmail

[Peter Boosten]

> Op 1 jul. 2019, om 08:43 heeft Rodrigo Readi via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> het volgende geschreven:
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> On Sun, 30 Jun 2019, Albaro Pereyra wrote:
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>> I just wanted to emphasize the importance of security in an MTA.
>> That being said sendmail is archaic and there doesn’t seem to be
>> any  milestones to improve it.
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> What is there insecure that is secure in other MTAs?
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The thing people keep hammering about is based on some vulnerabilities >10 years ago, _and_ that sendmail is based on a single executable, while other MTAs spread the tasks over several.

Peter

Btw. I use postfix myself, just because of ease of configuration.