From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 17: 6:38 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [64.0.106.45]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A0B937B405 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:06:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scanner@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (scanner@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA53472; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:06:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:06:30 -0400 (EDT) From: To: "Ian P. Thomas" Cc: David Leimbach , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Yanking Sendmail need something easier to understand In-Reply-To: <200106122107.RAA02196@scraemondaemon.my.domain> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Ian P. Thomas wrote: > I've never used postfix, but from what I've heard, it was built as > a replacement for Sendmail due to Sendmail's numerous security problems. > YMMV. I run Sendmail with the smrsh option, this allows Sendmail to use a > shell other than sh for its activities. The smrsh was developed as a > secure replacement for sh. You can even specify which user commands smrsh > will execute by putting them in /usr/adm/sm.bin/. Performance wise, I can > only speak from my own experience and say that Sendmail has always worked > for me, but I only get around 200-300 email through my machine daily. Hahah. Where did you hear this? Postfix has as one main goal to be a drop in replacement for sendmail as in compatability thats all. It's more secure then qmail and sendmail. And performs 300% faster then qmail. Where ever you heard Postfix is insecure by design, I would find a new place of information. ============================================================================= -Chris Watson (316) 326-3862 | Sr. Unix Administrator Work: chris.watson@twa.com | Trans World Airlines, Kansas City, MO Home: scanner@jurai.net | http://www.twa.com ============================================================================= WINDOWS: "Where do you want to go today?" LINUX: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" BSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ============================================================================= irc.openprojects.net #FreeBSD -Join the revolution! ICQ: 20016186 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message