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Re: [Gnumed-devel] talkback client


From: Tim Churches
Subject: Re: [Gnumed-devel] talkback client
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 06:53:05 +1000
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Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> I've always been running sendmail as a queuing demon even on my
> laptops. The advantage is that there's a well defined API for
> sending mail, namely SMTP. Whether the demon is started on
> demand by intetd or is always running is a peripheral matter,
> of course.

OK, it is a matter of taste. However, usual security advice is to not
install or disable all network daemons unless you actually need them. On
clinet machines running on a clinic LAN, I personally don't think they
need to have an SMPT daemon listening on port 25.

> All this is hardly a matter worth discussing for 0.1, methinks.

Nope.

Tim C





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