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Remotely exploitable sendmail vulnerability

Remotely exploitable sendmail vulnerability

Posted Sep 18, 2003 5:29 UTC (Thu) by eisenbud (subscriber, #13153)
Parent article: Remotely exploitable sendmail vulnerability

One word: postfix! There's very little that you'd want to do nowadays that you can't do with postfix, and it has a great security record (a couple remote DoS's, generally fixed within a day of discovery, never a remote compromise.) It's very thoughtfully engineered with security in mind, and with multiple layers of protection. It's fast, too.


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Seconded!

Posted Sep 18, 2003 15:31 UTC (Thu) by leonbrooks (guest, #1494) [Link]

100% PostFix here. It's not the excitingly esoteric mystery that QMail is, but it can do amazing things, and it isn't a complicated monolith, AKA "sitting duck", like SendMail. It's boring to administer, and in security circles, boring is better than good. Probably not better than sex, but certainly less messy.

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