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Subject: Re: SCO sendmail or mmdf
From: Adam Shostack <adam @ homeport . org>
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 1996 20:49:52 -0500 (EST)
To: Kyle_Amon @ jabil . com
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM, jfjohnm @ ca-online . com
In-reply-to: <00009236 . 1880 @ jabil . com> from "Kyle_Amon @ jabil . com" at Sep 27, 96 11:24:51 pm

Kyle_Amon @
 jabil .
 com wrote:

|      MMDF is probably more secure by virtue of being more obscure if 
|      nothing else.  I'm sure we've all been made aware of far more sendmail 
|      holes than MMDF holes but that does not in itself mean that MMDF is 
|      more secure.  Historically, it probably has been more secure but 
|      compared to the latest versions of sendmail... it's anybody's guess.

	Nope.  Use the source.  Theres no need to guess.  MMDF is no
better than sendmail.  Also, theres no book to help you understand
MMDF, and, as I understand it, no active development going on, which
means that bug fixes will be slower in coming.

	Look into qmail.
	http://pobox.com/~djb/qmail.html


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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
					               -Hume



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