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[Tom Diehl]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Nigel Metheringham wrote:

> I am less anti-sendmail than I used to be - its no longer the top CERT
> advisory item of every year.  
> 
> However if we are catering for the dumb user default install I tend to
> think we should not have *any* MTA (qmail, postfix, sendmail, courier or
> exim) but use something closer to a MDA (Mail Delivery Agent) - maybe a
> MIA (Mail Inject Agent) which punts everything off to a managed mail
> system*.   We should not be encouraging every tom, dick and harry to be
> their own mail system administrator because there is pitifully low clue
> levels in this field already.

I actually think this is the best idea so far. We should be doing everything
possible to reduce the number of misconfigured mail servers out there.
Not installing an MTA by default would IMO be a good start. If you think
you need it but do not know how to install it odds are you do not need it. :-)

> 	Nigel.
> 
> * I am aware that all the MTAs can be configured to act exactly as I
> describe the MIA above.  However MTAs are complex beasts with
> interesting (and complex) security relationships across the system.  A
> pure MIA - and I know there are a couple around - could be *much* less
> privileged since it has no local delivery to care about.


........Tom