Nils O. Selåsdal wrote:
Mircea MITU wrote:
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> You're right, those are silly reasons. But I, for one, I see two major
> reasons to make this switch, from sendmail to postfix as the MTA of
> choice:
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> 1. SANS Top Vulnerabilities, U5. Mail Transport Service
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http://www.sans.org/top20/#u5
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> 2. The very first thing done by the almost all the people I know after a
> RH/Fedora install, is rpm -e sendmail
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> I really wonder how many subscribers are still using Sendmail.
It's a very well known variable these days, and still is the reference
implementation.
I don't like sendmail myself, but postfix is pretty complex as well.
For the record, I do. I see no reason I should switch to something
else.
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Nils O. Selåsdal
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