Re: replacing sendmail with qmail

From: Peter Pentchev (roam_at_ringlet.net)
Date: 06/27/03

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    Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 11:37:17 +0300
To: Soeren Straarup <xride@x12.dk>

    On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 09:39:36AM +0200, Soeren Straarup wrote:
    >
    > Well my point is that every one (that is interrested in security) knows
    > that Sendmail and bind and so on have their exploits..
    >
    > And I like that they are the one that is comming with some more or less
    > insecure services, this is due to that it really gives ppl the freedom
    > choose the services that they want to use. But the generic ones works for
    > home networks with no external access too.
    >
    > Freedom of religion.
    >
    > Well with freedom comes responsibility.

    And this responsibility is handled excellently by the FreeBSD Security
    Officer team and the FreeBSD sendmail maintainer, George Shapiro.
    I don't think that there would be a better way to handle the existing
    and published Sendmail vulnerabilities than the current practice of
    timely patches and updates to both -current, -stable, *and* the various
    security branches, so that everyone tracking the security advisories is
    aware of the need to update, and update *now*, as soon as there is
    actually something to update to. Great job, folks!

    With that said, you could always do what I do and cut your own releases
    with appropriate NO_* knobs in make.conf ;) This is *not* to say that I
    don't trust the security officer team and the maintainers of the various
    pieces of contributed software that I exclude from my own builds; it's
    just a matter of personal preference.

    Here's hoping this is the last post in this thread :) (The last word?
    Me? Naah, that's just lack of morning coffee getting to you :P )

    G'luck,
    Peter 

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