0.94 first impressions
Craig Ringer
craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Fri Sep 26 05:15:17 UTC 2003
> - Can't we finally get rid of Sendmail as the default MTA, I'd fell
> so much better if postfix was the default listens-on-loopback-only MTA that
> is unfortunately still needed (or is it these days?)
Please, in the interests of solid default security. It is fairly trivial
for the user to just install sendmail, and anybody who should be USING
sendmail (managing security, etc) should definitely be able to do that.
They're going to need to update it fairly frequently after all :-P
Switching from sendmail to postfix strikes me as wise for the same
reason RH ships with a firewall on by default. Both can cause occasional
issues or breakage, neither are perfect, but both do significantly
improve out-of-the-box security while allowing users to easily
alter/remove them if needed.
Craig Ringer
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