## 6.3 Using the Sendmail mail server

Warning: You may be tempted to set the DELIVERY_MODULE configuration variable in mm_cfg.py to `'Sendmail'` when using the Sendmail mail server. Don't. The Sendmail.py module is misnamed - it's really a command line based message handoff scheme as opposed to the SMTP scheme used in SMTPDirect.py (the default). Sendmail.py has known security holes and is provided as a proof-of-concept only4. If you are having problems using SMTPDirect.py fix those instead of using Sendmail.py, or you may open your system up to security exploits.

#### Footnotes

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  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.