Subject: Re: bin/30040: some MTA stuff
To: None <gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/23/2005 16:39:02
The following reply was made to PR bin/30040; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/30040: some MTA stuff
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 18:38:26 +0200

 On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 03:32:01PM +0000, Sascha Retzki wrote:
 >  > >Fix:
 >  > 
 >  I forgot the fix:
 >  - Don't distribute two MTAs
 
 Why ? This way the user has the ability to chose which one to use.
 Although which MTA to ship, and which one to use by default is
 controversial, I don't see any fundamental problems with having several
 MTAs shipped with the system.
 
 >  - Don't use idiotic, wrong or insecure default configurations
 
 How is the default sendmail idiotic, wrong or insecure ? The default
 configuration allows local mails to be delivered (output of cron jobs,
 virecover, etc ...) and to send remote mails to remote MTAs in the
 majority of installations (for the benefit of send-pr). It doens't
 listen on any public IP, only localhost. I don't see any problems here.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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