From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 10:32:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dns.sonntag.org (dns.sonntag.org [216.140.186.114]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E748A4615 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 10:32:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from win2knoc (st84043.nobell.com [216.140.184.43]) by dns.sonntag.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA23544; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:23:55 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from shino@hakkenden.com) From: "Shino" To: "Freebsd-Questions" , "Ben Smithurst" Subject: RE: Qmail or Sendmail? Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2000 12:30:11 -0600 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: <20000205143154.A9651@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I went with sendmail because I wanted to be familiar with this powerful and widely used SMTP server. However my eyes too have been turned towards the light of qmail and postfix. It has been mentioned that they (qmail and postf) have "fewer security issues". Its sendmail 8.9.3 bad? Is qmail or postfix easier on VirtualDomain admins like myself? Or am I feeling the "grass is greener on the other side" syndrome? I have gotten sendmail configuration down to a system of steps but I am hardly guru level. thanks Shino -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ben Smithurst Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2000 8:32 AM To: wellsian Cc: James A. Mutter; Adam; freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Qmail or Sendmail? wellsian wrote: > I agree with James. A "200 user" load should be trivial unless they're all > using pine at the same time. All (sendmail, postfix, qmail) can do the > same things, but qmail and postfix are much simpler to configure and > should have fewer security issues. Don't forget Exim! :-) It's also very easy to configure, and I'm not aware of any security problems with it. -- Ben Smithurst / ben@scientia.demon.co.uk / PGP: 0x99392F7D To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message