Re: Anti-spam system

[Robert Waldner <Waldner@KPNQwest.at>]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 11:50:48 PDT, "John L. Fjellstad" writes:
>On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 07:40:37AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote:
> 
>> which of course means that you should upgrade to at least 8.9.3-22 or 
>>  -23[0], the latter is already in stable.
>
>My main problem wiht Sendmail is, given its history of problems, how
>certain are you that this will be the last security problem? Especially,
>now that there are other, and better, alternatives out there, postfix 
>is a drop-in replacement, from what I understand, why still use
>Sendmail?

I´m quite sure that won´t be the last problem with sendmail. But I´m 
 also sure that other software has its troubles too. Software has bugs, 
 I know it, but as long as they´re fixed (big tnx to all the coders, 
 maintainers and otherwise contributing people out there!) the choice 
 comes down to which you trust most and/or know best.

We use sendmail at work, so I´m halfway familiar with it. Why should I 
 spend my time learning yet another software? I´m a user, neither a 
 coder nor a tester, but a network engineer. I don´t really care which 
 software it is, as long as it does its job and is compatible with my 
 morale.

I used exim for a few months and also installed smail once per 
 accident. Exim I found too cryptic for my needs, smail was just a PITA 
 to configure. So I stick with sendmail and spend my time on issues 
 where I can be more productive, and, maybe some time in the future, 
 I´ll be so good I´ll be able to contribute something to the community 
 myself. But I´m quite sure it won´t be in the field of MTA´s ;-)

cheers,
&rw

PS: Yes, I know this is quite long, but you asked for it *g*


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