From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 12 17:17:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f199.law12.hotmail.com [64.4.19.199]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583BB37B75C for ; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:17:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsdblood@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:17:43 -0800 Received: from 203.121.127.130 by lw12fd.law12.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 01:17:43 GMT X-Originating-IP: [203.121.127.130] From: "BSD Blood" To: burnscharlesn@hotmail.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail vs other MTAs Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 01:17:43 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 13 Mar 2001 01:17:43.0454 (UTC) FILETIME=[67949BE0:01C0AB5B] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How about the documentation for qmail? Is it sufficient? >From: "Charles Burns" >To: bsdblood@hotmail.com, questions@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: sendmail vs other MTAs >Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:07:25 -0700 > >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" >>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 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