Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: Marc Perkel
CC: exim users
Subject: Re: [exim] which is better sendmail or exim

On 27 Nov 2006, at 23:37, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Yes - I was asking on behalf of someone else who was concerned if
> there
> had been any history of Exim security holes. I searched Google and
> there
> was one back in 1997, but didn't see any since. My answer is that Exim
> is as secure if not more so tan Qmail.


You have missed 10 CVEs apart from anything else:-
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=exim

(qmail has 9, of which 2 appear to be an external package).

However, as other people have said, the question is too broad to be
sensible and the conclusion you draw is very dodgy.

    Nigel.


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