Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:30:56 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: "Edward W. M." <edward_wm@hotmail.com>, dominic_marks@hotmail.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP) Message-ID: <20010213103056.A45128@rapier.smartspace.co.za> In-Reply-To: <3A88F07D.535984D2@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:29:49AM -0700 References: <LC4-LFD104zkps49rAG00000067@hotmail.com> <20010213093240.A40761@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <3A88F07D.535984D2@softweyr.com>
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On Tue 2001-02-13 (01:29), Wes Peters wrote: > > On Mon 2001-02-12 (15:51), Edward W. M. wrote: > > > >Mail Options: > > > >1. Qmail - Secure, written for FreeBSD (Qwest?), Fast, Configurable > > > > > > I would advise against qmail, as I've had reliability issues with > > > it. > > > > Like? > > > > > ports/mail/courier-imap looks promising, but at this stage it's just > > > something for people who want to tinker with it, IMHO. It's fairly > > > new, so it has no proven security record and it currently supports > > > the Maildir format ONLY. > > > > It also does POP3. > > And IMAP-SSL, and POP3-SSL. It's far beyond the tinkering stage, > though feeding it with qmail is a mistake in my opinion. Ick. And there's always courier. I haven't used it in a production environment, but I'm confident in Sam's ability to write a standards-compliant SMTP server that doesn't suck technically. The question is whether Outlook will support it. ;) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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