JP Vossen via plug on 6 Sep 2019 09:45:55 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Exim oops (vs Postfix?)


What I'd like to know is why anyone would ever use anything other than Postfix?

OK, I know Exim is the Debian default that they never changed due to inertia and stability (https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/DefaultMTA), but I consider that a major bug.

Yet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exim
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In August 2019 a study performed by E-Soft, Inc.,[3] approximately 57% of the publicly reachable mail-servers on the Internet ran Exim.
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Exim’s security has had a number of serious security problems diagnosed over the years.[8] Since the redesigned version 4 was released there have been four remote code execution flaws and one conceptual flaw concerning how much trust it is appropriate to place in the run-time user; the latter was fixed in a security lockdown in revision 4.73, one of the very rare occasions when Exim has broken backwards compatibility with working configurations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postfix_(software)
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One of Postfix' many daemons serving exactly one purpose. This split-up into many smaller pieces of software is considered one of the reasons why Postfix is secure and stable.
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But then, I ask why people use Git too, so...  :-)
JP
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