Sendmail and security

[John Summerfied]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> A user of another distro has remarked that I should uninstall sendmail.  
> <quote> Sendmail simply has too many security issues to leave it on any 
> machine. </quote>
> 
> Surely a box kept up to date would not have those security issues.  Am I 
> missing something?

Only if RH is:-)

It's still the default MTA installed by Red Hat's installer.

I don't use it myself, but that's to do with ease of configuration and 
the fact I was using Debian for a while, where sendmail was broken and 
unlikely to get fixed any time soon, so I switched to postfix which I like.

sendmail has an enormous share of the "market" - it can't be _that_ bad.


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