From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 06:25:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D9816A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:25:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outfbmx008.isp.belgacom.be (outfbmx008.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.3.105]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFDE43D1F for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:25:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geert@lori.mine.nu) Received: from outmx001.isp.belgacom.be (outmx001.isp.belgacom.be [195.238.3.51]) (8.12.11/8.12.11/Skynet-OUT-FALLBACK-2.22) with ESMTP id i5GFbHZ4013167 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:37:17 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from outmx001.isp.belgacom.be (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id i5GFavNg004478 for ; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:36:57 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: from lori.mine.nu (171-16.244.81.adsl.skynet.be [81.244.16.171]) with ESMTP id i5GFauSr004457; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:36:56 +0200 (envelope-from ) Received: by lori.mine.nu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3654E70F; Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:36:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:36:49 +0200 From: Geert Hendrickx To: mail25@bzerk.org Message-ID: <20040616153648.GA77456@lori.mine.nu> References: <40D023A1.8090009@cs.uiowa.edu> <20040616140305.GD32001@millerlite.local.mark-and-erika.com> <20040616145305.GB15913@ei.bzerk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040616145305.GB15913@ei.bzerk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i X-GPG-Key: http://www.win.ua.ac.be/~s005085/gnupgkey.txt X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/766C1E92 X-Accept-Language: nl,en cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 06:25:45 -0000 On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:53:05PM +0200, mail25@bzerk.org wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:03:05AM -0400, Mark Frank typed: > > * On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 05:40:33AM -0500 Jason Dusek wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am having a lot of trouble setting up mail. And, perhaps more > > > importantly, I am having a lot of trouble figuring what software to > > > set-up. Sendmail is standard but buggy, so I imagine that Postfix is a > > > better choice. > > > > Just curious. What sendmail bugs are you referring? Have you reported > > them to sendmail.org? > > Probably just hear-say. There's so much bad-mouthing sendmail! Most of > it by people who got lost in sendmail's many configuration options, but > instead of reading some docs they drop it, telling everybody they should > avoid sendmail at all cost. > > Too bad, 'cause to me and many others sendmail is one of the most > reliable and compliant MTA's in existance today. And there hasn't been > a major security problem in years. > > just .02 euro. >From what I have heard and read... sendmail indeed has a serious history of security-issues (as it was not initially designed for the Internet as we know it today), but has had a major code cleanup a while ago, and doesn't run SUID anymore, so it should be much more secure now. Anyway, Postfix has been developed as a "security-enhanced but compatible" alternative to sendmail. And as someone else mentioned already, its configuration is indeed quite straightforward. Personally, I would use sendmail on end-user machines (e.g. for use with fetchmail) because it's in the base system, but Postfix for mailservers with more complex configuration or security-concerns. Btw, can anyone of the sendmail-guru's tell me how sendmail compares performancewise? GH