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Ryan Anderson <ryan@michonline.com> writes:

> I think, in practice, that /usr/lib/sendmail will exist anywhere you hve
> something running on port 25, at least on unixy machines.  In my
> searches at an old job, that appeared to be the canonical place to call
> sendmail from, and every MTA appears to provide an appropriate binary
> there.
>
> So, I'm not overly worried about it.

exim, postfix and friends?

I used to know somebody who port-forwarded 25/tcp to central
smtp server from smaller machines in her intranet installation,
but I would say that is rare.  I am not worried about it either;
I just wanted to make sure _somebody_ thought the potential
issues through and agreed with the change the patch makes.