on Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:03:34AM +1000, Russell Coker (russell@coker.com.au) wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:35, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > Which is a damned good reason for Debian not to package
> > viruses and spam mailers. Or tools which can be readily subverted as
> > such.
>
> My Postal program can be used for DOS attacks on mail servers, and has been
> used for such on at least one occasion (*).
"Can be used" and "is designed to do when used as directed" has already
been dealt with and dismissed as a separate case from the one under
consideration.
My understanding of postal is that it is launched at the direction of a
local user. While this could be embedded into other mechanisms (cgi,
procmail, etc.), it's not packaged or designed specifically for this.
Peace.
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