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The sendmail of today is not the sendmail of the 90's.

Sure, I'd prefer postfix, but if you're just sending local email out for system checks or whatever, sendmail's okay.

As someone who is totally not aware of this: Why is everybody so horrified about sendmail being included in an OS?

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!

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