From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Apr 5 17:21:36 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA27010 for isp-outgoing; Fri, 5 Apr 1996 17:21:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (root@agora.rdrop.com [199.2.210.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA27005 Fri, 5 Apr 1996 17:21:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by agora.rdrop.com (Smail3.1.29.1 #17) id m0u5MfE-0008tvC; Fri, 5 Apr 96 17:19 PST Message-Id: From: batie@agora.rdrop.com (Alan Batie) Subject: Re: Recommendation Needed for server setup To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 17:19:40 -0800 (PST) Cc: michael@memra.com, joel@quicklink.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199604051652.KAA04751@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Apr 5, 96 10:52:04 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Some other folks have been talking about 32MB of RAM. Well, maybe it was > just me, but that did not cut it for me. Yes, I'm running 32Meg, and expires are pretty lengthy. I really wish motherboard makers would get a clue. I've been running a system for over 10 years, on 5 or 6 systems, and every time I've upgraded it's been so I could put more memory in the system, not because I needed more horsepower. > > Unless you're concerned about security, then you run smail :-) > > Eh, security through obscurity? Nobody's yet explained to me why smail is > more secure than Sendmail, beyond the fact that nobody really uses smail and > therefore the security loopholes that it may offer do not get noticed as > rapidly. Well, the author did once comment about having at least thought about security while writing it (meaning no slight on Eric). Regardless of whether smail's holes aren't there or just don't get found, the fact is, I've never seen a CERT advisory for it, whereas sendmail has them about once a month (well, maybe a quarter). If all the crackers are poking at sendmail and ignoring smail, that's still a good reason to use in my book. Besides, the main reason I run it is that you can actually configure it without a configuration compiler and a personal guru :-) -- Alan Batie ______ We're Starfleet officers: batie@agora.rdrop.com \ / Weird is part of the job. +1 503 452-0960 \ / --Captain Janeway DE 3C 29 17 C0 49 7A 27 \/ 40 A5 3C 37 4A DA 52 B9 It is my policy to avoid purchase of any products from companies which use unrequested email advertisements or telephone solicitation.