On Sun, 2002-08-25 at 20:33, Ed Wilts wrote:
> 
> You can believe the people who run their own e-mail at home on Postfix
> or qmail, or you can listen to the many corporations that rely on
> their business e-mail going through sendmail.  

OR, you can listen to the large security community which will pretty
much unanimously tell you to run screaming from the monstrosity that is
sendmail.  Sendmail violates many of the principles of secure
programming, and has a long history of exploits:
* it accepts data from untrusted sources as a privileged user
* the portion of the program that runs as a privileged user is very
large, and thus, hard to validate





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