> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Antony > Stone > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 3:32 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] sendmail devel? > > > On Friday 05 March 2004 8:22 pm, redragon wrote: > > > This could end up being a long drawn out battle. > > That is not what I intended to start when I posted my question, > and I hope it > doesn't happen. > > > I personally prefer > > sendmail to any other MTA and have no security issues with it. Like any > > other piece of software you install it must be maintained. > > Agreed. I personally like sendmail, but that's partly simply > because I know > it better than other MTAs. > > I simply wanted to know if people were aware of any recent assessments > comparing the security of sendmail vs. other MTAs, showing that sendmail > still has problems. The opinion expressed by Jim, that sendmail is less > secure than postfix or qmail, suggested to me that he might have > something to > support it, and I would be very interested to see that. >
Well sorry to disappoint, but there is no recent support to my claims. Indeed i do not wish to start any quarrels with anyone so i hope that does not happen here. I was simply basing my claims on the history of the software. I do not run sendmail so i can not vouch for its current security. Simply put, i do not need all the fancy stuff that sendmail supports. Ease of installation/use is the main reason i use qmail. It all comes down to what YOU need your mta to do. Neither is better/worse than any other. IMHO the problem with sendmail is that when it was designed, the author had NO idea just how popular it was going to be. Had he known, im sure it would have been designed differently. On a (not so) side not, does sendmail support maildirs? I tried finding the answer to this on the website, but no luck. Jim ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
