[CentOS] sendmail substitute?

Morten P.D. Stevens mstevens at imt-systems.com
Thu Oct 14 17:55:09 UTC 2010


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at 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,

Morten



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