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