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Re: default MTA for sarge



On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 02:14:42AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> Op wo 16-07-2003, om 01:35 schreef Milan P. Stanic:
> > On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:13:46PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> > > Philip Hazel is pedantic about dropping root privileges ASAP, and
> > > generally codes quite securely.
> > 
> > Wietse Venema does not?
> 
> On the contrary. I posted that paragraph because Craig said 'exim is
> insecure', not because I think it's coded 'more' or 'less' secure than
> postfix.

correction: i said exim's *design* is insecure.


AFAIK, there are no current security holes or exploits for exim.  there have
been in the past, and the insecure design means that there probably will be in
future.

craig



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