From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 5 10:48:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from s1.ds.net (s1.ds.net [207.239.204.1]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97BDD45F9 for ; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 10:48:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from ds.net (i1p77.cmh-oh.ds.net [207.239.205.77]) by s1.ds.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA02083; Sat, 5 Feb 2000 13:49:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <389C70A9.ECE91CF1@ds.net> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 13:49:13 -0500 From: "James A. Mutter" Reply-To: jmutter@ds.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Shino Cc: Freebsd-Questions , Ben Smithurst Subject: Re: Qmail or Sendmail? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Shino wrote: > > 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. I don't think that Sendmail is the garden of security holes that it used to be, at least not the newer 8.9.x versions. As for the grass being greener on the other side of the fence - I've never worked with qmail but Postfix seems significantly easier to configure. Now, knowing all that I still use sendmail in high-volume environments, not because Postfix can't handle it but rather because I am more familiar with Sendmail. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message