From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 16 12:32:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2D6914C3E for ; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 12:32:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Received: from eboa.com (n669.telekabel.euronet.nl [194.134.130.170]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA03723; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:32:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from eboa.com (roelof [10.0.0.2]) by eboa.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id VAA58580; Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:35:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from roelof@eboa.com) Message-ID: <3767FC5E.59E12B48@eboa.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:34:54 +0200 From: Roelof Osinga Organization: eboa - engineering buro Office Automation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scott Benjamin Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail VS Qmail References: <1D7D0A00F0E8D111A26600104B873E4C01783FA2@exchange.quests.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Scott Benjamin wrote: > > I'm running a box and I'm concerned with the security of that machine. I've > heard some remarks that Sendmail is not very secure and that Qmail is. Can > anyone validate this rumor? > Is Qmail that good of an alternative? There have been huge threads written about just that topic. Personally I've tried qmail for a while but didn't find it as comfortable as sendmail. So I went back to sendmail. As to security, sendmail is as safe as you make it. And it sees a lot of use, so there is lots of feedback and information out there. Maybe too much . Roelof -- Home is where the (@) http://eboa.com/ is. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message