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Post #95,175 by ben_tilly 4/8/03 9:04:34 PM Reply	I can conceive of something it isn't good at... Defining an effective exclusion policy when faced with a cracker armed with the latest list of known exploits. As always, complexity lends itself to bugs. A certain fraction of bugs are exploitable. Given what sendmail does, most exploits tend to be remote. Given that it is in widespread use, this makes for fertile ground for finding security holes... Cheers, Ben "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]
Post #95,195 by admin 4/8/03 9:42:32 PM Reply	And of course... ... the litmus test of all things computer-related: Can you write a polymorphic shapes example in sendmail config files?? Regards, -scott anderson "Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
Post #95,201 by ben_tilly 4/8/03 9:56:16 PM Reply	I'm sure that you can :-) "good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not" - [link\|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html\|Stefano Mazzocchi]

Just how "bad" is Sendmail? - (inthane-chan) - (8) - April 8, 2003, 05:32:45 PM EDT

fundamentally complex at low level - (boxley) - (1) - April 8, 2003, 06:12:25 PM EDT

Yabut... - (Another Scott) - April 8, 2003, 06:20:00 PM EDT

It's the best possible MTA in the Universe... - (kmself) - (4) - April 8, 2003, 06:28:09 PM EDT

I can conceive of something it isn't good at... - (ben_tilly) - (2) - April 8, 2003, 09:04:34 PM EDT

And of course... - (admin) - (1) - April 8, 2003, 09:42:32 PM EDT

I'm sure that you can :-) -NT - (ben_tilly) - April 8, 2003, 09:56:16 PM EDT

emacs or vi - (Fuat) - April 11, 2003, 12:49:14 AM EDT

Let me give you an abstuse reason. - (static) - April 10, 2003, 08:56:27 AM EDT

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