From owner-freebsd-security Thu Feb 1 7:33:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from test.kens.com (kens.com [129.250.30.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A78337B684 for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 07:33:31 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 4067 invoked by uid 1002); 1 Feb 2001 15:33:31 -0000 Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 10:33:31 -0500 From: "Robin S. Socha" To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail vs. postfix question Message-ID: <20010201103331.L53804@kens.com> Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.14i In-Reply-To: ; from cliff@raggedclown.net on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:12:04PM +0000 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-URL: https://socha.net/ X-Editor: Vim-600 http://www.vim.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Cliff Sarginson [010201 10:13]: >> I once was faced with the same dilemma as you were. I finally decide >> to the Postfix way have not regretted my decision one bit. It was >> the easiest and fastest configuration I had experienced, a definite >> plus over Sendmail. Null argument, since the same applies to every other MTA, particularly qmail. > I want to endorse the comments below. No. You want to endorse this and fix your quoting. And while we're at it, don't think for a minute about Cc:ing me: http://learn.to/edit_messages > The author of Postfix has produced a realy solid, fast and > secure mail system. You may be interested to know he also > authored tcp-wrappers and the (in)famous satan program. > He also personally answers many of the questions on the > postfix-users@postfix.org mailling list. Wietse Venema is also extremely nice and friendly. /Un/fortunately, that has not much to do with security ;-) Anyway, postfix and qmail are indeed the MTAs of choice if you're looking for secure and fast ones. If you intend to run mailing lists, qmail's ezmlm is, however, /the/ #1 choice. Reply-to set. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message