From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 25 13:50:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA12164 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:50:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (root@mexico.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.253]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA12136 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (brasil.brainstorm.fr [193.56.58.33]) by mexico.brainstorm.eu.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA26684 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:49:26 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by brasil.brainstorm.eu.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with UUCP id WAA08442 for hackers@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 22:48:54 +0100 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.3/keltia-uucp-2.9) id VAA08103; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:28:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:28:14 +0100 From: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail (Re: non-root users binding to ports < 1024 (was: Re: BoS: Exploit for sendmail smtpd bug (ver. 8.7-8.8.2 References: <9611251742.AA10825@bio-5.bsd.uchicago.edu> <199611251909.NAA15280@brasil.moneng.mei.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.51 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#2738 In-Reply-To: <199611251909.NAA15280@brasil.moneng.mei.com>; from Joe Greco on Nov 25, 1996 13:09:37 -0600 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk According to Joe Greco: > on just how compatible Qmail strives to be. Not that much. Many switches just make the sendmail wrapper puke. It doesn't support ESMTP and its extensions, logs are not at the same level as sendmail (I like sendmail's a lot). Qmail is certainly interesting (good design, small programs and so on) but has for me too many flaws (no UUCP support at all, funky configuration system with zillions of ".qmail-*" files -- I really hate 'em, no ESMTP). As for security review, if you think sendmail's code is bad, try qmail's sometimes. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #29: Sun Nov 24 16:05:46 MET 1996