replacing sendmail with qmail

From: Alin-Adrian Anton (aanton_at_reversedhell.net)
Date: 06/25/03

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    Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 09:47:28 +0300
To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org

    Hi guys,

    As sendmail showed to be so vulnerable in the past, and even in the
    recent past, I was wondering to propose removing it from the default
    install on freebsd. Currently, sendmail comes with the system sources,
    and runs as root. I think this is bad, and it could be replaced with
    qmail, for example. Or, something else, if you think something else is
    more secure. Please let me know if this is possible, or why if not, and
    to whom shall I address this idea (I wonder why it didn't happen yet).

    Best Regards,
    Alin.

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