On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:28:27 +0200, Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> wrote:

> BTW, can anyone enlighten us why sendmail was removed?
> Was it becouse of security issues, maintainement difficulties, politics
> or something else? 
> 
Note what Christos said: the change was requested by security-officer@ and
core@.  That's all I know -- but if security-officer@ requested it, I have
to assume that there is yet another security bug (or bugs) in the
distribution.  (Again, that's an *assumption*.)

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb