Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 23:35:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug <doemill@shocking.com> To: "=?iso-8859-1?q?Jean-Pierre=20H.=20Dumas?=" <jphdumas@yahoo.fr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail vs qmail ? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05.9907202331110.14655-100000@fingers.shocking.com> In-Reply-To: <19990721062819.7683.rocketmail@web1001.mail.yahoo.com>
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you can set up a .qmail-user for the non existent user in /var/qmai/alias/, and have the mail forwarded to that account sepcified like president@whitehouse.gov I dunno about not adding a user but having pop for a non-existent user, but security wise, sendmail can be secure if your an atentive admin, qmail is your best bet On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, [iso-8859-1] Jean-Pierre H. Dumas wrote: > OK, I have set up DNS and apache and sendmail, on > FreeBSD 3.2R, out of the box. > Everything run fine, but... > As this is going to be a *unattended server*, with very little Unix > knowledge once I quit the company, I am > wondering about qmail instead of sendmail. > > For two main reasons: > 1. Security (the net is full of FAQs, Howtos, rumors, > etc. and they all say the same, basically) > Everywhere I read: sendmail is a potential threat > to security, qmail is the thing to go. > 2. Ease of administration: I this machine will be > a pure server, *no* users will ever login into it. > just POP3, and HTML and FTP, to the max. So, somewhere > in the voluminous qmail blurbs, ads, FAQs, etc I read > that it is possible to have users *without* a regular > unix account. (Does this means what I dream of, no > entry in /etc/passwd and co. ?) > > Question: Is this really possible, if yes how, where > is it practically documented ? > If not, what is the best way to go to set up a mail > server, with all the users files in a easy to > administer place, no security threats. ? > > Currently sendmail on FreeBSD + Netscape/Eudora on > Windows is working OK, but I have to set up users > account, and it may prove a little heavy for the > future part time administrator without unix knowledge > and no willingness to get any. > (vipw is out of question, definitely, and adduser > is possible but I am not sure it is so foolproof and > idiotproof) > > Thanks for any knowledgeable help. > Thanks again to those who helped me with 2.2.8 vs 3.2 > > Jean-Pierre Dumas > jphdumas@yahoo.fr > jphdumas@oz.igh.cnrs.fr > ___________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Votre e-mail @yahoo.fr gratuit sur http://courrier.yahoo.fr > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > | Doug | unix9.org admin | shocking.com/~doemill/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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