Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 09:00:45 -0500 From: "MikeM" <zlists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recommended Mail Transfer Agent Message-ID: <200501030900450705.1844FB7F@sentry.24cl.com> In-Reply-To: <20050102203631.GA3765@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net> References: <20050102202051.GA7603@cmsrtp.com> <20050102203631.GA3765@turingmachine.mentalsiege.net>
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On 1/2/2005 at 2:36 PM Adam Fabian wrote: |On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:20:51PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote: |> have noticed sendmail is the default MTA, but I have no sendmail |> experience. Also I know historically sendmail has had some serious |> security issues. | |sendmail is also bundled with OpenBSD, which is proactively rabid about |security. ============= They are also rabid about licensing issues, which I suspect is more than likely the reason Postfix is not the default MTA and sendmail is. Also, sendmail is in send-only mode on OpenBSD, it does not receive mail from the outside by default. Having used sendmail, qmail and postifx, I can say that Postfix is the hands-down easiest to configure. Additionally, the support on the Postfix-users mailing list is excellent.
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