From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2023 06:52:33 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2307230648220.61870@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFH29tqUNK8cC+UtznqkBtw59BhekoAGRAZjtppCo6bRi5sb6g@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, 22 Jul 2023, Rich Salz wrote:
> (Compare to procmail, where the quote was "seen the source? Gaah, my
> eyes are melting.")
The Procmail source is so bad that even the author has abandoned it; it's
likely to be riddled with security holes too, so you'd be nuts to use it.
> I enjoyed watching this, thanks. I agree with the other comment "what,
> nothing about security?" Sendmail did enable the first Internet worm :)
Like C, Sendmail was not really designed with secure coding in mind.
-- Dave
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-21 18:53 [TUHS] " Rich Morin
2023-07-21 22:14 ` [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:30 ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 22:33 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:39 ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 23:39 ` Steve Nickolas
2023-07-22 4:37 ` John Cowan
2023-07-22 1:48 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-07-22 1:55 ` Jon Forrest
2023-07-22 6:45 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-07-22 14:54 ` Rich Salz
2023-07-22 15:24 ` Warner Losh
2023-07-22 16:12 ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2023-07-22 20:52 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2023-07-30 17:33 Douglas McIlroy
2023-07-30 18:22 Norman Wilson
2023-07-30 21:43 ` Rob Pike
2023-07-30 23:34 ` George Michaelson
2023-07-30 23:59 ` Erik E. Fair
2023-07-31 0:26 ` Warner Losh
2023-07-31 22:57 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-31 23:05 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-01 2:45 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01 1:51 ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-08-01 2:47 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01 3:20 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-07-31 0:41 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-01 9:22 ` Marc Donner
2023-08-01 10:58 ` Erik E. Fair
2023-08-02 0:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-08-02 14:52 ` Ron Natalie
2023-08-02 21:14 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:20 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:37 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-02 23:49 ` Rich Salz
2023-08-02 23:33 ` Dave Horsfall
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