Actually, as of RHEL6, the default MTA is now Postfix.
Sendmail does indeed have a rather lengthy history of vulnerabilities. With that being said, in my opinion, Postfix is also a much more flexible MTA.
Josh
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Morten P.D. Stevens Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 1:55 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] sendmail substitute?
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org wrote:
What is the rationale behind deactivating Sendmail. Just curious. Or
is it
the typical rant "Sendmail is insecure, see its history"?
I don't understand why many people calling sendmail insecure.
Sendmail is the default MTA in RHEL, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD ...
Why should they use an insecure MTA?
Sendmail is a very robust and reliable MTA.
Best regards,
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