[Info-vax] Kernel Transplantation

Stephen Hoffman seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Tue Jan 23 17:15:16 EST 2024


On 2024-01-23 13:29:56 +0000, Simon Clubley said:



> The biggest external problem I have ever had to personally deal with 
> was that the UCX stack still had an SMTP open relay with no way of 
> restricting it, when the rest of the world had moved on and this was 
> very, very, no longer acceptable.

Last I checked, the 💩 default for TCP/IP Services SMTP mail server was 
a 💩 open relay. With no diagnostics. Reproducer was trivially simple: 
delete (or mis-locate) the SMTP configuration file.

With no TLS and no STARTTLS support to be found anywhere in the TCP/IP 
mail server, last I checked.



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