Re: Sendmail Info


Subject: Re: Sendmail Info
deem@wdm.com
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 09:53:54 AKST


On 24 Mar 2003 at 9:51, Arthur Corliss wrote:

> >
> > Yes but my sys admin spent days pactching enterprise servers running sendmail,
> > had 3 days patching over 20 a day. So we really like to se people running sendmail.
>
> No offense, but that's *way* to long. It only took me a few hours to compile
> once (per platform), and have a script stop the service, install the new
> binaries, regenerate the config (off of a standardised mc file), and restart
> the service for all of my boxes. And that's patching from source.
>
> Hell, if you're using vendor patches and you have that many systems, why would
> you not use a software deployment product, like Solaris Jumpstart, AIX NIM,
> IRIX Roboinst, etc.? Sounds like your admin's time wasn't well spent, and
> that's not the fault of sendmail.
>

Of course that is not all he did on those days. Think about it.

> In short, you have a software deployment issue, and that will affect *any*
> system patches (even alternative SMTP agents). For my money, sendmail is far
> too flexible and feature rich to not use, it's maturity makes incidents like
> this fairly isolated, and it's prevalent use means I've got more products that
> will integrate with it than any other competing product.
>

I'm not into debating MTA's, just want to be sure we have secure systems. Glad you
you are happy.

Have Fun,

Dee

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