On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 19:45 -0800, Donald Arseneau wrote: > Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > A user of another distro has remarked that I should uninstall sendmail. > > <quote> Sendmail simply has too many security issues to leave it on any > > machine. </quote> > > > > Surely a box kept up to date would not have those security issues. Am I > > missing something? > > I can agree with the sentiment, but it is not a case of unpatched security > holes. Sendmail is just too difficult to configure for it to be used on > an average user's computer. It isn't a security hole just being there, > the way it is configured by default (nowadays), but if the user wants > to enable more, it is easy to accidentally make a spam remailer. > > > -- > Donald Arseneau asnd@xxxxxxxxx >From my view sendmail is an excellent MTA. It certainly takes a while to understand and master the logic. It took me two years, and then there are many many features that I have not even tried to use. I have always been able to accomplish what I want very easily. In particular the way sendmail is packaged with FC4 it is very easy to get a good start, but if you are going to do some changes make sure you get the O'Reilly 'bat' book, and I would also recommend the O'Reilly sendmail cookbook. Good Luck!! Greg
