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+6.3 Using the Sendmail mail server</A>
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+<div class="warning"><b class="label">Warning:</b>
+
+You may be tempted to set the <var>DELIVERY_MODULE</var> configuration variable in
+<span class="file">mm_cfg.py</span> to <code>'Sendmail'</code> when using the Sendmail mail server.
+<strong>Don't</strong>. The <span class="file">Sendmail.py</span> module is misnamed - it's really a
+command line based message handoff scheme as opposed to the SMTP scheme used
+in <span class="file">SMTPDirect.py</span> (the default). <span class="file">Sendmail.py</span> has known security
+holes and is provided as a proof-of-concept only<A NAME="tex2html4"
+ HREF="#foot393"><SUP>4</SUP></A>. If you are having problems
+using <span class="file">SMTPDirect.py</span> fix those instead of using <span class="file">Sendmail.py</span>, or
+you may open your system up to security exploits.
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+<DT><A NAME="foot393">... only</A><A
+ HREF="node31.html#tex2html4"><SUP>4</SUP></A></DT>
+<DD>In fact, in later
+versions of Mailman, this module is explicitly sabotaged. You have to know
+what you're doing in order to re-enable it.
+
+</DD>
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