Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:46:43 -0500 (EST) From: "[gill]" <gill@topsecret.net> To: Dragos Ruiu <dr@kyx.net> Cc: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, Fenix <fenix@xs4some.net>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail vs. postfix question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102011142170.32894-100000@pacific.int.topsecret.net> In-Reply-To: <01020103331409.27656@smp.kyx.net>
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There was an interview with W Venema this week on http://securityportal.com/closet/closet20010131.html very interesting stuff. --gill -- This is my ~/.signature file. It is the digital equivalent of a bumpersticker. Remember? When you said: ->On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Christopher Farley wrote: ->> Fenix (fenix@xs4some.net) wrote: ->> ->> > I have a little question about sendmail vs. postfix .... ->> > Are there any known recent problms with sendmail security ? ->> > what about postfix ? ->> [snip snip snip] ->As far as security, given how much I rely on it, I recently(last year) decided ->to re-audit its code, and after a couple of days spent looking for format ->strings and other stuff I decided to discontinue the audit... Mr. Venema's code ->is so rigorous that it even passes _internal_ data between routines through ->filtering and cleaning functions (how paranoid is that :-) if that's any ->indication of how it's built up. -> ->I personally think very highly of it. (Besides, I really would be fine ->if I never have to look at another arcane sendmail ruleset ever ->again... :-P ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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