Sendmail still default?

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Sat Oct 18 20:44:59 UTC 2008


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 18 octobre 2008 à 13:34 -0500, Les Mikesell a écrit :
> 
>> You seem to have missed the sea change.
> 
> I didn't notice the "sea change" changing anything about sendmail's
> terrible monolithic architecture.

How are separate processes receiving to a queue, processing the queue, 
delivering locally, with any number of concurrent milters all running 
under potentially different non-root id's except for the operations that 
require it, monolithic?

> And again, upstream seems more convinced than you are about current
> sendmail's irremediable faults.

The remedy was done years ago.

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   Les Mikesell
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