From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 1 14:52:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A72CF37B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:52:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from zardoc.esmtp.org (adsl-63-195-85-27.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.195.85.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 890F743EC2 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:52:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ca@zardoc.esmtp.org) Received: from zardoc.esmtp.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zardoc.esmtp.org (8.12.7/8.12.7.Beta1) with ESMTP id h01MqWGL030437 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:52:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ca@localhost) by zardoc.esmtp.org (8.12.7/8.12.0.Beta12) id h01MqWxO000863 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:52:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 14:52:32 -0800 From: Claus Assmann To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-RC2 informal PR: 90 sec sendmail delay Message-ID: <20030101145232.A391@zardoc.esmtp.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3E1352BC.4043921B@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <3E1352BC.4043921B@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 12:42:36PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jan 01, 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: > I'm not too happy about some of the changes to Sendmail recently, Which? And why? If there are problems, the authors would like to hear about it directly, instead of reading it in some mailing list by accident... > but I understand, from a marketing perspective, why they are > being made, to compete with DJB's security claims on qmail, and > Weitse's claims on seperation of operation on performance (both > claims are bogus, but it's complicated to explain to potential > customers why that's the case). We are not making changes "from a marketing perspective". If you are referring to the separation of sendmail into MTA and MSP: this was necessary to get rid of sendmail being set-user-ID root, which is a security risk (as you will probably agree, this isn't marketing, this is real, e.g., sendmail was abused in some cases to exploit bugs in the OS). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message