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Re: New free secure open source IBM mailer aka Vmailer aka Postfix
Hi,
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
> Is this a Chameleon ? How many times can an email program change names and
> stay the same (?) thing ?
>
> http://www.postfix.org
Vmailer (which is now named postfix) is a secure (not so, but it claims to
be one) drop-in replacement for sendmail. It is purely UNIX as of now, and
is written by Wietse Venema, who is infamous for cursing Dan J. Bernstein
(the author of qmail) about every concept he has put in qmail. You can
read all about the bugs and design flaws in the BUGTRAQ list archives. One
such design flaw, for example, enables a malicious local user on the MTA
machine to delete other users' email.
Shachar Tal
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Taub Computer Center, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
finger me for contact info or PGP key.