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Michael St. Laurent wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I've been using an SMTP proxy for years now but have been having
problems with it lately. So I am wondering if it is safe to let
Sendmail talk SMTP to the outside world these days or if
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<pre wrap="">that is still
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<pre wrap="">considered a Bad Idea(tm).
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<pre wrap="">Sendmail is the most widely used MTA on the internet (>60%), when
vulnerabilities have been discovered in the past they were fixed very
quickly.
Not sure where you get the concept " *Still* a bad idea",
its the MTA
of choice in my book and has been for over 10 years and
facing it on the
internet correctly configured has never been a bad idea...
Sendmail is over 25 years old and is still the number 1, its the most
configurable and provides the best functionality....
A lot of sys admins are cautious of it because they don't know how it
works well enough... but its like anything these days once
you know how
to use it, its very simple to make it do what you want...
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Oh, I can make it do what I want. But when I first put things together
here I didn't have time to do a lot of research and there were some high
profile incidents took place involving Sendmail exploits. In any case,
using a proxy sounded safer than *not* using one.
I hope the "Bad Idea" comment didn't give offense as it was not intended
to be any kind of a dig against Sendmail.
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No offence taken, just wondered/interested if someone had given you a
reason not to use it, in which case I would be interested to hear what
it might have been...<br>
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Regards<br>
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Pete<br>
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