Smith wrote:
I've been playing with OpenBSD for around 5 years. I vaguelly recall only one security alert for sendmail in all that time (I could be wrong on this). I also vaguelly recall postfix having a couple of security alerts within the last couple of weeks (I could be wrong on this). And Exim.... I'm more scared of a 0day exploits on those 3rd party products than OpenBSD's sendmail.
Wow! Such stupid arguments and remarks with statements such as "I could be wrong on this". A couple of security alets with postfix in the past few weeks? Make sure you know wtf you're talking about before you put your foot in your mouth.
You talk about 0-day with clamd/spamassasin? You fail to neglect the problems with the AV solutions themselves (See the latest CanSecWest security vulns in "many" AV solutions..including root in TM solutions).
So to the guy who started this post, let the MTA do what it was designed for and does best, transfer email. Invest in an enterprise virus solution like Norton, use Thunderbird for a client, and have the Windows
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You've got to be kidding me. Such moronic OpenBSD zealtory with no real world arguments to back it up? What "enterprise" runs OpenBSD sendmail as it's main MTA. If you're an enterprise, you'd be running something Ironmail or Brightmail (which incidently is not available for OpenBSD ofcourse). What is your userbase?
suffer. You might as well since you will still have to invest in something like Norton even if you do choose to implement virus and spam filtering on the MTA. If you do this, and one workstation goes down, it's hopefully only one workstation. But if your MTA gets rooted, it's your whole organization.
Wow! You call yourself a network administrator and talk about MTA being r00ted by clamd/spamassassin? lol
