From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 10 7:13:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (zoom2-177.telepath.com [216.14.2.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ECAA37BDBC for ; Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:13:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 17565 invoked by uid 100); 10 Aug 2000 14:12:30 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14738.47181.994257.457281@guru.mired.org> Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 09:12:29 -0500 (CDT) To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail or ??? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.72 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Alan Clegg > Out of the ether, Rick Hamell spewed forth the following bitstream: > > Ok, another question. Are there any major differances between > > Sendmail and Qmail (or another mailer) that I should be aware of? I'm a > > bit concerned with security, but not sure I'm ready to tackle > > Sendmail. Qmail looks to be a little easier, but I'm not sure who it is > > security wise. Thanks for help! > I'd personally recommend qmail if you are limiting yourself to a choice > of one of those two. Yup. Sendmail is a large program with a lot of power - that most people simple don't need these days (does anyone out there still use bitnet or berknet email addresses?). It's got a long history of security problems. Qmail has had no security problems. While it's relative youth and small user base certainly have something to do with that, the author did offer a reward for security bugs at one point - which went unclaimed. I personally like the maildir format for mail storage as well, but that does restrict your choice of UMAs a bit. > If I were chosing today, I would look into postfix. Ditto. When I switched from sendmail to qmail, postfix wasn't quite ready for primetime. Otherwise, I would have given it a look. I'm happy enough with qmail that I haven't bothered to look again.