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[Garrett Goebel]

Scott Smith wrote:
>
> While it may or may not be a good point that Qmail has had
> a small amount or no reported security issues with Qmail
> lately, you also have to take into consideration the
> response time a developer has in announcing and fixing
> security issues.

And the other side of that coin:

Just because someone announces a patch doesn't mean it gets instantly
applied. How many Microsoft shops have applied all the current and
applicable patches to all their machines? Not even Microsoft. What of all
the default installs of Sendmail from all those UNIX distributions sitting
blissfully ignored and unpatched over the years by neglectful admins? And I
wonder... if Sendmail servers are supposedly responsible for >50% of all net
email traffic... what proportion of it is spam? And how does it compare to
other MTA's?

Somehow "its their own fault" doesn't quite cut the mustard ;)

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Garrett Goebel
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