From owner-freebsd-security Tue Feb 13 0:31:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from rapier.smartspace.co.za (rapier.smartspace.co.za [66.8.25.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D6F1D37B491 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 2001 00:31:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 45932 invoked by uid 1001); 13 Feb 2001 08:30:56 -0000 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 10:30:56 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Wes Peters Cc: "Edward W. M." , dominic_marks@hotmail.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure Servers (SMTP, POP3, FTP) Message-ID: <20010213103056.A45128@rapier.smartspace.co.za> References: <20010213093240.A40761@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <3A88F07D.535984D2@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A88F07D.535984D2@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 01:29:49AM -0700 Organization: Building Intelligence X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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