Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:39:36PM -0700, jim@laney.edu wrote:
> in the message IDed as <[🔎] 19981005203124.B5730@mercury.oz.net>, Robert Woodcock <rcw@oz.net> wrote this on Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:31:24 PDT:
> > Yeah, I know this makes at least the second reincarnation of this thread in
> > the last 6 months, but I really think exim should be the standard MTA in
> > slink.
>
> (I am not a voter here.)
>
> Fine... but PLEASE don't make decisions that would make any of the other
> mailers unusable to any degree (that's for everyone else), -especially-
> sendmail (that's for me).
Nah, it wouldn't affect existing setups, only new users who never
specifically chose an MTA in dselect, i.e. went with the standard system.
Just out of curiosity, what's the security track record on smail vs exim
for the last two years? The standard MTA should have a chance of being
secure from remote attacks for at least a year after release.
--
Robert Woodcock - rcw@oz.net
"Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses" -- Richard Gabriel
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