sendmail

[Valeri Galtsev]

On 2019-06-30 22:04, Albaro Pereyra wrote:
> I just wanted to emphasize the importance of security in an MTA.  That being said sendmail is archaic and there doesn’t seem to be any milestones to improve it.
> 

I for one, whenever I have to run MTA on FreeBSD machine, use postfix. 
And this goes for both: listening to localhost only or to external 
interfaces.

Still, I'm OK with whatever MTA ships with the base system. Whatever 
FreeBSD project team is happier to have integrated, my attitude is: let 
them do it. Whoever wants things done differently has in the first place 
compose the system distribution and maintain that securely for several 
years oneself. I for one do realize I am not able to maintain my own 
system distribution. So, I refrain from insisting the the system 
maintainers should have these or those components instead of the ones 
they decided to have. I invite everybody else to look at it from similar 
point of view.

Valeri

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>> On Jun 30, 2019, at 12:25 AM, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 14:41:43 -0700, Albaro Pereyra wrote:
>>> The sendmail repo has not been updated for a really long time according to
>>> its wiki article.  When will Free-bsd ship with postfix or the ubuntu MTA
>>> that is being attacked recently?
>>
>> The sendmail version included with FreeBSD ist primarily intended for
>> inter-program communication, log, and local notification. Users who
>> want to run "real mail" systems will probably install Postfix or Exim
>> anyway, combined with other services to complete the requirements
>> (MTA, MDA, IMAP services etc.). Those will be obtained from the ports
>> collection where a recent version is available, and which can be up-
>> dated independently from the OS.
>>
>> Oh, and why should FreeBSD ship with something that is being attacked? :-)
>>
>>
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