Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-12 Thread Tony Finch
Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I personally have confidence in Exim's quality in this regard. >Demon (a large ISP in the UK and the Netherlands, www.demon.net) >uses Exim as its customer-facing smtp interface, so I guess that they're >convinced as well. To be precise, we use Exim for

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-08 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 07 Oct 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:00:51 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > > >I personally have confidence in Exim's quality in this regard. > >Demon (a large ISP in the UK and the Netherlands, www.demon.net) > >uses Exim as its customer-facing smtp interface, so I guess tha

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-08 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Slootman) wrote on 07.10.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue 06 Oct 1998, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > > > Just out of curiosity, what's the security track record on smail vs exim > > for the last two years? The standard MTA should have a chance of being > > secure from remo

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-08 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 08:31:24PM -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote: > [...] so if there seems to be a concensus this time around, I'll file bugs > against ftp.debian.org. Filed. It's bug #27642. -- Robert Woodcock - [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses" -- Richard Gabriel

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-07 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 7 October 1998 12:12:10 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Just curious how you know this since when I telnet to their relay hosts > they are very non-descript about what they run. Exim-users. And a certain news hierachy with some bofhish guys in it. Did I mention psi.uk.com, btw? Alexander

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-07 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998 13:00:51 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: >I personally have confidence in Exim's quality in this regard. >Demon (a large ISP in the UK and the Netherlands, www.demon.net) >uses Exim as its customer-facing smtp interface, so I guess that they're >convinced as well. Just curious

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-07 Thread Paul Slootman
On Tue 06 Oct 1998, Robert Woodcock wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, what's the security track record on smail vs exim > for the last two years? The standard MTA should have a chance of being > secure from remote attacks for at least a year after release. In the words of Philip Hazel (the Exim a

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-07 Thread Guy Maor
"Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Supposedly it is about ready to be released. Using a newly written MTA as our default sounds like a poor idea. Guy

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-06 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:39:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in the message IDed as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote this on Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:31:24 PDT: > > Yeah, I know this makes at least the second reincarnation of this thread in > > the last 6 months,

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-06 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 11:39:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > in the message IDed as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote this on Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:31:24 PDT: > > Yeah, I know this makes at least the second reincarnation of this thread in > > the last 6 months,

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-06 Thread jim
in the message IDed as <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Woodcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote this on Mon, 05 Oct 1998 20:31:24 PDT: > Yeah, I know this makes at least the second reincarnation of this thread in > the last 6 months, but I really think exim should be the standard MTA in > slink. (I am not

Re: exim really does need to be the standard MTA in slink

1998-10-06 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998 20:31:24 -0700, Robert Woodcock wrote: >1. YES, PLEASE >2. Let's wait for vmailer >* What's the status of vmailer now? Supposedly it is about ready to be released. Of course, I don't see what all the hoopla over vmailer is about in the first place. -- Steve C.