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by ruph123 1915 days ago
As someone who is totally not aware of this: Why is everybody so horrified about sendmail being included in an OS?
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Historically, there were a ton of vulnerabilities in sendmail. 1980’s C code, etc. Also, I will say its configuration format (“sendmail.cf”) is awful, though generally nobody works with it directly. FreeBSD uses “m4” to build the configs, for example.
Thank you!