Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:07:25 -0700 From: "Charles Burns" <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com> To: bsdblood@hotmail.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail vs other MTAs Message-ID: <F15379AX7Ur5qWn3GCI0000668e@hotmail.com>
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You might consider qmail. Many FreeBSD people don't seem to like its' license very much, but it is a good MTA. It is extremely secure. As the author brags on his website (http://www.qmail.org/top.html) there have been several cash rewards over the years offered for anybody that could find a security hole in qmail. None were ever claimed. Sendmail, OTOH, has been the poster child for remote root exploits for years. I have not heard of any such exploits for quite a while though. qmail is also said to be faster by far than Sendmail by far, but this probably won't matter unless you have hundreds of thousands of messages per day to process. The author makes some rather extreme claims about qmail, such as the claim that under BSD with no softupdates and no async, qmail is "crashproof". He gives tips for making mail reliable and then says "You may encounter people who dispute one or more of the above statements. Those people don't know what they're talking about." In any case, qmail is used by several big servers (as is Sendmail). These include Hotmail (unless MS has finally been able to make Exchange Server handle the load without crashing), Slashdot, RedHat, and others. >From: "BSD Blood" <bsdblood@hotmail.com> >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: sendmail vs other MTAs >Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 03:50:17 -0000 > >Hello. I've been using FreeBSD for 4 months. What are your opinions on >sendmail compared to the other MTAs like postfix,qmail, etc. on FreeBSD. >Which one is more stable, easy to configure, secure, etc. ? I need to >decide >which one to use as my SMTP server. I have little experience with sendmail, >but I don't really like it because I find it too difficult to configure and >there are just too much documentation to read. > >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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