From owner-freebsd-security Sat Sep 23 21:34:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6390737B424 for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 21:34:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA25794; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:34:29 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000923223152.04470e70@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 22:34:23 -0600 To: Gerhard Sittig , security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: sendmail default run state In-Reply-To: <20000923145557.G5065@speedy.gsinet> References: <200009222118.e8MLId117503@orthanc.ab.ca> <20000922222026.A33410@mithrandr.moria.org> <200009222118.e8MLId117503@orthanc.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 06:55 AM 9/23/2000, Gerhard Sittig wrote: >Are you sure of the above facts? IIRC _any_ UNIX MUA will use >the sendmail command line interface (/usr/sbin/sendmail) for >outgoing mail. Only MTAs talk SMTP. Many -- in fact most -- MUAs talk SMTP. And for good reason: it's universal. You can talk to either the local machine OR a remote machine that way, while going through local sendmail requires extra code. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message