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Date:      Fri, 5 Apr 1996 17:19:40 -0800 (PST)
From:      batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie)
To:        jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco)
Cc:        michael@memra.com, joel@quicklink.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Recommendation Needed for server setup
Message-ID:  <m0u5MfE-0008tvC@agora.rdrop.com>
In-Reply-To: <199604051652.KAA04751@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Apr 5, 96 10:52:04 am

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> Some other folks have been talking about 32MB of RAM.  Well, maybe it was
> just me, but that did not cut it for me.

Yes, I'm running 32Meg, and expires are pretty lengthy.  I really wish
motherboard makers would get a clue.  I've been running a system for over
10 years, on 5 or 6 systems, and every time I've upgraded it's been so I
could put more memory in the system, not because I needed more horsepower.

> > Unless you're concerned about security, then you run smail :-)
> 
> Eh, security through obscurity?  Nobody's yet explained to me why smail is
> more secure than Sendmail, beyond the fact that nobody really uses smail and
> therefore the security loopholes that it may offer do not get noticed as
> rapidly.

Well, the author did once comment about having at least thought about
security while writing it (meaning no slight on Eric).  Regardless of 
whether smail's holes aren't there or just don't get found, the fact
is, I've never seen a CERT advisory for it, whereas sendmail has them
about once a month (well, maybe a quarter).  If all the crackers are
poking at sendmail and ignoring smail, that's still a good reason to
use in my book.  Besides, the main reason I run it is that you can
actually configure it without a configuration compiler and a personal
guru :-)

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