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Re: New free secure open source IBM mailer aka Vmailer aka Postfix



On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Shachar Tal wrote:

> 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.

While I don't endorse Wietse's attiude, I do dislike qmail. I don't see
us moving to anything (except new sendmail versions) any time soon.

--Ariel

> 
> Shachar Tal
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> Taub Computer Center, Technion, Israel Institute ofTechnology
> finger me for contact info or PGP key.
> 
> 
> 

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