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Bug#557948: ssmtp severity 557948 normal



Aníbal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 05:13:32PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> I assume the underlying difficulty is that ssmtp doesn't have a
>> privilege separation built into the software the way that most UNIX
>> MTAs do, where there's a daemon running with elevated privileges that
>> the client talks to?

> Sorry Russ but was that a question or a statement?

It's a question.  I've never used ssmtp personally, so I'm just guessing
at its internal architecture.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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