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Re: selective smart host/sendmail choice



On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 09:32:59AM EDT, Mark Frank wrote:
> * On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 10:38:42AM +0200 Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
> > * On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 04:08:07AM -0400 David Yitzchak Cohen wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 10, 2004 at 03:02:13AM EDT, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:

> > This and the "great" history of sendmail vulnerabilities are the reasons
> > why I don't like sendmail.
> 
> I hope you don't use OpenSSH either since it has a history of
> vulnerabilities.  Yes, I know they've been fixed but so has sendmail's.

Yup, I use OpenSSH too.  I just make sure to upgrade as soon as I see
security-related announcements.

> > > If I were going to do that, my approach would probably be to define
> > > two mailers, the smtp mailer, and the relay-to-smarthost mailer.  I'd
> > > then tell sendmail to try smtp first for any given message, and
> > > failing that (4xx error code) to fallback to the smarthost relay.
> > > ("Can your exim do THAT?" ... hehe. . .)
> 
> While I admire your propensity to complicate matters as much as possible
> David, the original question in this thread was answered quite succinctly
> by Nicolas Rachins.  Mailertable is the answer.  Actually, a good question
> for the original poster is why not use the non-blacklisted smart host all
> the time?

Oh, so you're trying to bring us back on-topic?  How DARE you!?! ;-P

 - Dave

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