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Duane Attaway
dattaway at dattaway.org
Thu Jul 31 17:51:10 CDT 2003
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Frank Wiles wrote:
> For me the problem is the license of qmail. I prefer to work with
> Open Source software. And by that I don't mean just that I can see the
> software, but that I'm free ( as a commercial entity or otherwise ) to
> basically do whatever I want with it.
>
> Also, the days when Sendmail was a big security risk are pretty much
> gone. Yes I will admit it has had a checkered past, but honestly how
> many Sendmail specific security holes have there been in the last
> year?
Other mailers have much promise and I've tried many, but always return to
Sendmail. Sendmail is light on resources, has a wonderful m4 macro
language for configuration, and just works.
I have kept Sendmail up to date several years and haven't been r00ted yet.
(at least that I know of :)
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