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Re: (OT) Prejudice against sendmail?



On Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:09:29 +0100, John Kelly wrote:

> daves:~ # ls -al /usr/sbin/sendmail
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root mail 681648 2006-08-12 14:59 /usr/sbin/sendmail
                     ^^^^ 
This is not a good one.
Though I don't doubt the flexibility of sendmail, the .mc and compiler
dependency is a bit out of touch with Joe User.
I learnt sendmail the hard and long way and used to like it very much.
But on my production boxes, I rather have unprivileged daemons.

Let's face it: sendmail is a fantastic, clunky, army knife for an MTA. But
written when the ARPANET was a nice and friendly place.

Uwe





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