Re: why is sendmail the adopted mta?

[Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@xxxxxx>]

Michel Talon wrote:
> (*) the famous ssh exploits are certainly not an excuse for sendmail.
> The OpenBSD people who were ultra conservative, still relying on Bind4
> and other antiquities in the name of security have finally understood 
> that this did not buy anything securitywise but greatly impeded 
> usability and have converted to Bind9. Either them or the NetBSD people
> offer sendmail and postfix in the base system, so it is not a
> "lese-Berkeley" crime to ask for such a thing.

Just for the record; I would _love_ to see Postfix as default MTA.